Upheaval buckling of pipelines can occur under thermal expansion and differential ground settlement.Research on this phenomenon has usually assumed the pipes are buried in horizontal ground.For long-distance transmiss...Upheaval buckling of pipelines can occur under thermal expansion and differential ground settlement.Research on this phenomenon has usually assumed the pipes are buried in horizontal ground.For long-distance transmission pipelines across mountainous areas,the ground surface is commonly inclined.Based on the Rankine earth pressure theory and Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion,analytical formulae for calculating the peak uplift resistance and the slip surface angles for a buried pipe in inclined ground are presented in this paper.Analyses indicate that the slip surfaces in inclined ground are asymmetric and rotate towards the downhill side.Under a shallow burial depth,the failure plane angle is highly impacted by the ground inclination.When the embedment ratio(H/D)is more than 4,the influence of the ground slope on the failure plane angle is negligible.The peak uplift resistance reduces in inclined ground,especially when H/D is less than 1.Finally,a simple equation considering the impact of ground inclination is proposed to predict the peak uplift resistance.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51988101 and 51178427)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LCZ19E080002)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2019FZA4016),China。
文摘Upheaval buckling of pipelines can occur under thermal expansion and differential ground settlement.Research on this phenomenon has usually assumed the pipes are buried in horizontal ground.For long-distance transmission pipelines across mountainous areas,the ground surface is commonly inclined.Based on the Rankine earth pressure theory and Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion,analytical formulae for calculating the peak uplift resistance and the slip surface angles for a buried pipe in inclined ground are presented in this paper.Analyses indicate that the slip surfaces in inclined ground are asymmetric and rotate towards the downhill side.Under a shallow burial depth,the failure plane angle is highly impacted by the ground inclination.When the embedment ratio(H/D)is more than 4,the influence of the ground slope on the failure plane angle is negligible.The peak uplift resistance reduces in inclined ground,especially when H/D is less than 1.Finally,a simple equation considering the impact of ground inclination is proposed to predict the peak uplift resistance.
