Mobilization of soil loads on buried, polyethylene natural gas pipelines subject to relative axial displacements
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The performance of buried, medium-density polyethylene (MDPE) pipes subject to movements relative to the soil in the direction of the pipe axis is investigated by full-scale physical model testing conducted using a large soil box. A new closed-form solution was developed to account for the nonlinear material response of MDPE pipes under axial loading, and the analytical results are compared with the results obtained from the full-scale pipe pullout testing. The closed-form solution provides a rational framework to estimate the response of the pipe (i.e., level of strain, force) and the mobilized frictional length along the pipe for a known relative axial pipe movement. The approach, in turn, could be used to estimate the relative axial movements needed for pipe failure, which is an important consideration in the evaluation of field-performance of pipe systems located in areas of potential ground movement. The methodology is an important initial step towards the development of representative axial soil-springs representing complex pipe–soil interaction encountered in relatively extensible, buried polyethylene (PE) pipe systems subject to soil loading arising from ground movements.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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