TESTS TO VALIDATE CENTRIFUGE MODELLING OF FLEXIBLE PIPES
In order to compare the results obtained from model tests on buried flexible pipes, using the Cambridge geotechnical centrifuge, with a full-scale prototype, a 1 m diameter steel pipe was subjected to loading tests while buried in dry sand in the Transport and Road Research Laboratory test pit. A geometrically similar model pipe was subjected to similar loading using the centrifuge, installed in the same sand at the same density. The strain distributions, maximum sustainable loads, and the final deflected shape of the pipe predicted by the model tests showed good agreement with the behaviour of the full-scale prototype. (Author/TRRL)
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Corporate Authors:
Foundation Publications Limited
7 Ongar Road
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Authors:
- TROTT, J J
- TAYLOR, R N
- Publication Date: 1984-9
Media Info
- Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 17
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Serial:
- GROUND ENGINEERING
- Volume: 17
- Issue Number: 6
- Publisher: EMAP CONSTRUCT LIMITED
- ISSN: 0017-4653
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Centrifugal force; Centrifuges; Conduits; Deflection; Deformation; Deformation curve; Density; Flexibility; Flexible structures; Forecasting; Loads; Pipe; Pits; Sand; Scale models; Steel; Structural models; Tests; Underground structures
- Uncontrolled Terms: Flexible; Model tests; Subterranean
- Old TRIS Terms: Flexible conduits
- ITRD Terms: 5404: Centrifugal force; 8525: Conference; 5595: Deformation; 5908: Density; 5702: Excavation pit; 132: Forecast; 5567: Load; 6205: Model (not math); 3361: Pipe; 9109: Prototype; 4105: Sand; 4542: Steel; 5931: Stiffness; 4372: Subterranean; 6255: Test
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Geotechnology; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00392442
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD, TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 29 1985 12:00AM