Role and development of soil parameters for seismic responses of buried lifelines

Conference · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983 · Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., Pressure Vessels Piping Div., (Tech. Rep.) PVP; (United States)

OSTI ID:5452375

Wang, L R.L.

Buried lifelines, e.g. oil, gas, water and sewer pipelines have been damaged heavily in recent earthquakes such as 1971 San Fernando Earthquake, in U.S.A., 1976 Tangshan Earthquake, in China, and 1978 MiyagiKen-Oki Earthquake, in Japan, among others. Researchers on the seismic performance of these buried lifelines have been initiated in the United States and many other countries. Various analytical models have been proposed. However, only limited experimental investigations are available. The sources of earthquake damage to buried lifelines include landslide, tectonic uplift-subsidence, soil liquefaction, fault displacement and ground shaking (effects of wave propagation). This paper is concerned with the behavior of buried lifeline systems subjected to surface faulting and ground shaking. The role and development of soil parameters that significantly influence the seismic responses are discussed. The scope of this paper is to examine analytically the influence of various soil and soilstructure interaction parameters to the seismic responses of buried pipelines, to report the currently available physical data of these and related parameters for immediate applications, and to describe the experiments to obtain additional information on soil resistant characteristics to longitudinal pipe motions.

• Research Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
• OSTI ID: 5452375
• Report Number(s): CONF-830607-
• Journal Information: Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., Pressure Vessels Piping Div., (Tech. Rep.) PVP; (United States), Vol. PVP-VOL. 77; Conference: American Society of Mechanical Engineers pressure vessel and piping conference, Portland, OR, USA, 19 Jun 1983
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS
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