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Soil Axial Resistance of A Pipeline
Soil Axial Resistance of A Pipeline
H is the cover height to top of the pipeline,
W is the operational submerged weight of the pipeline,
?is the sand friction angle
In order to use the calculated axial resistance of the soil of the buried section of the pipe in
global buckling analysis, an equivalent friction coefficient is defined using the following equation:
The total soil resistance against upheaval buckling of the buried section of the pipeline is
calculated using the following formula [2]:
Where,
Hc is the depth from the soil surface to the center of the pipe
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Sandy Soil Axial Resistance On Buried Section of a Pipeline
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?' is the submerged unit weight of soil
f is the uplift resistance factor, which equals to
for loose sand
D is the pipe diameter
w is the pipe unit weight
References:
1. The Axial Resistance of Buried and Unburied Pipelines, Oliphant, J., et. al, Proceeding of
6th international offshore site investigation and geotechnics conference, 2007.
2. Soil Response for Pipeline Upheaval Buckling Analyses: Full Scale Laboratory Test and
Modelling, OTC 6486, 1990
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