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Horizontal Directional Drill Installation Calculations- based on Tensile strength

ASCE Manuals and reports on Engineering Practice No. 10


Pipe, Operational, Installation & Site Characteristics Values Units Values Units

Steel Grade 9
Specified Minimum Yield Strength SMYS 450.00 N/mm2 70049.49 lb/in2
Young's Modulus Es 200.0E+3 N/mm 2
29,006,000 lb/in2
Poisson's Ratio vs 0.30
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion T 1.17E-05 per oC

Design Stress Factor F 0.72


Outside Diameter D 28.00 inches 711.20 mm

Wall Thickness tw 22.20 mm 0.874 in

Depth H 15,000 mm
Bored Diameter and Type Bd 1,066.80 mm Type: HDD

Maximum Allowable Operating Pressure P 86.00 barg 8.60 N/mm2

Temperature at time of Installation Tmax 30.00 oC 86.00

Design Temperature Max Tmax 50.00 oC 122.00 oF

Design Temperature Min Tmin 15.00 C o


59.00 oF

Temperature Derating Factor T 1.000 (B31.8 Table 841.116A)

Spec & Pipe Class 19.00


Longitudinal Joint Factor E 1.00 (B31.8 Table 841.115A)

HDD Rig size Fr 200.00 tons


Rig Pulling factor Sr 75.00 %
Allowable tensile stress factor Ft 0.40
Time under tension design factor St 0.91
Length of Drill L 800.00 m 2,624.64 ft

Total change of angle over L 16.00 degrees


Radius of curvature 1,300.00 m

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Horizontal Directional Drill Installation Calculations- based on Tensile strength

1.0 Check Allowable Barlow Stresses (API 1102 Equation 8b) Values Units


Actual Barlow Stress 137.75 N/mm2
Allowable Barlow Stress 324.00 N/mm2
Actual Barlow Stress < Allowable Stress

1.1 Installation Stresses- Bending Stress


The pipe stress due to bending stress of pipe is determined as follows

R A  ( L / A ) 688
RA = Maximum Radius of Curvature (inch)-(For 8 Degrees)
L = Length drilled (ft)
Maximum Radius of Curvature in Drilled hole (in) RA 112,859.52 in 2866.63 m

Min.Radius of Curvature in Drilled hole used RD 51,181.10 in 1300.00 m

f b  ( ED ) /( 2 R D )
fb = Longitudinal Bending Stress (lb/in 2)
Longitudinal Bending Stress (lb/in 2) fb 7,934.26 lb/in2 54.71 N/mm2

F b =0.75F y for D/t  1,500,000/F y


F b = [0.84-(1.74F y D)/(Et)]F y for 1,500,000/F y < D/t  3,000,000/F y
F b = [0.72-(0.58F y D)/(Et)]F y for 3,000,000/F y < D/t  300,000

Maximum allowable Bending Stress (lb/in 2) Fb -9,429.96 lb/in2 65.02 N/mm2

Longitudinal bending stress < Allowable bending stress



1.2 Installation Stresses- External Hoop Stress
The pipe thickness due to external hoop stress of pipe is determined as follows

t  D / 12 (864 P ext / E )1 / 3

D/t  50 D/t = 48.20


t = Pipe wall thickness (inch)
P ext = Uniform external Pressure in lb/in 2 (Assumed as 7.5-Percent E )
E = Modulus of Steel in lb/in 2
Optimum thickness (D/t  50) t 14.224

Pipe wall thickness due to External Hoop Stress


Actual thickness > Allowable Thickness
t 14.755 mm 

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Horizontal Directional Drill Installation Calculations- based on Tensile strength

1.3 Installation Stresses- Tensile Stress


The pipe stress due to pulling tensile stress of pipe is determined as follows

ft  S y S tT y

Sy = Tensile Yield Factor


St = Time under tension design factor
Ty = Tensile yield strength
Ft = Allowable Tensile Stress

Allowable Tensile Stress ft 163.800 N/mm2 23,755.91 lb/in2

1.4 Installation Stresses- Required Pipe thickness to meet allowable tensile stress
The pipe thickness due to pulling tensile stress of pipe is determined as follows

tr  ( pi(Do / 2)2  (((Fr / Sr ) / ft ) / pi) * 2


Fr = HDD Rig size
Sr = Rig pulling factor
Ft = Allowable Tensile Stress
Do = Outside pipe diameter
tr = Required pipe wall thickness to meet allowable tensile stress

Pipe wall thickness due to Tensile Stress t r 14.44 mm

Pipe wall thickness to be used t 22.20 mm



Actual thickness > Allowable Thickness

1.5 Installation Stresses- Pipe combined installation stress


The pipe stress due to combined stresses is determined as follows

f t / 0.9 F y  f b / Fb  1

Ft = Allowable Tensile Stress (lb/in2)


fy = Pipe minimum yield strength (lb/in 2)
fb = Longitudinal Bending Stress (lb/in 2)
Fb = Maximum allowable Bending Stress (lb/in 2)

f t / 0.9 F y + f b / F b -0.436943
= 
Actual thickness > Allowable Thickness

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Horizontal Directional Drill Installation Calculations- based on Tensile strength

2.0 Operating Stresses- Internal Hoop Stress


The pipe stress during operation due to hoop stress is determined as follows

f h  ( Pint D ) /( 2t )
fh = Pipe hoop stress due to internal pressure (lb/in 2)
P int = Uniform internal pressure (lb/in2)
t = Pipe wall thickness (in)
f h  70% SMYS


Pipe hoop stress due to internal pressure fh 19,974 lb/in2
137.73 N/mm2

Actual internal hoop stress < Allowable internal hoop stress

2.1 Operating Stresses- Combined Operating Stress


The pipe stress during operation due to hoop stress is determined as follows
For worst case, fc fh , fv  ( fc  fl ) / 2
fv  ( fh  fc ) / 2
f l  ( f cV  f b )
fb
f v  f h [(1  v ) / 2) 
2
f v  45% SMYS
fv = Longitudinal component oF circumferential stress (lb/in 2)
fc = Total circumferential stress (lb/in2)
fl = Total Longitudinal stress, fb (lb/in 2)


Longitudinal component of circumferential stress fv 3,023.94 lb/in2
20.85 N/mm2

Actual combined operating stress < Allowable combined stress

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