Pipe Thrust Restraint Considerations: What You Don't Find in a Textbook

The design of thrust restraint for piping systems, especially of large diameter (greater than 24-inch diameter) gasketed push-on joint piping systems, can become complicated as the forces involved in larger diameters reduce the restraint options available to a designer. This is due to larger thrust forces amplifying the pipeline stresses, movements and corresponding soil reactions. Most thrust restraint publications do not address non-standard environments that commonly occur in design. Some of the scenarios that a designer might encounter that require special consideration are fixed leg-flexible leg alignments, pipe telescoping, in-line valves, and limited joint deflection of restrained joints. The purpose of this paper is to address thrust restraint scenarios which require non-standard design considerations, to present potential solutions for such, and to present various phenomena encountered in large diameter pressure systems operating at 100 psi or more, which is typical of most municipal water and wastewater systems. This paper is not intended to address welded/fused-type joint systems, but to address the unrestrained push-joint and restrained-joint type piping systems.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1061/41187(420)95
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2011 ASCE
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Adams, Benjamin C
• Conference:
  • Pipelines Conference 2011
  • Location: Seattle WA, United States
  • Date: 2011-7-23 to 2011-7-27
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 1035-1044
• Monograph Title: Pipelines 2011: A Sound Conduit for Sharing Solutions

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Deflection; Design; Joints; Wastewater; Water pipelines
• Uncontrolled Terms: Thrust restraint
• Subject Areas: Design; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Pipelines; I20: Design and Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01380485
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411872
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Aug 21 2012 5:09PM