Submarine Debris Flow Impact on Pipelines: Numerical Modeling of Drag Forces for Mitigation and Control Measures
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Abstract
Summary Provision of mitigative and control measures are necessary for a pipeline to survive in a debris flow event, but the forces in the soil-structure interaction must be estimated for the design. Based on physical experiments in a flume and numerical analyses, this paper presents a method for estimating the impact drag force on laid-on-seafloor and suspended (free-span) pipelines. The method may be applied in practice to a wide range of debris flow impact situations. Two conceptual mitigative and control measures for design against submarine debris flow impact are discussed: the berm-protected laid-on-seafloor pipeline and the cable-controlled pipeline system. The latter may be applied to both the pipeline-on-seafloor and suspended pipeline situations. The observations from a laboratory flume experiment with a model pipe protected by an upstream berm, as well as complementary computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical analyses results are presented. The results from the flume experiment show that there is a possibility to protect a pipeline provided the protective structure can withstand the basal shear and lift forces induced by the water and debris flows on its surfaces. The results may be used for conceptual and preliminary design purposes, and the analysis methodology may be tailored to other situations or the detailed design. The feasibility of the two conceptual mitigative and control measures is briefly discussed.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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