Numerical Investigation of Oblique Pipeline/Soil Interaction in Sand
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Energy pipelines pass through various environmental and geotechnical conditions. They are usually buried and can be subjected to geohazards like landslides, fault movements or large subsidence resulting in large permanent ground deformations along part of their length. The effect of large permanent ground deformations on buried pipelines can be critical for their integrity and safety. Understanding this effect is important for pipeline designers. In the current engineering guidelines the pipeline/soil interaction has been idealized using structural modeling which evaluates the soil behavior using discrete springs with load-displacement relationships provided in three perpendicular directions (longitudinal, lateral horizontal and vertical). These springs are usually independent and during a 3D pipe/soil relative displacement they can not account for cross effects due to shear interaction between different soil zones along the pipe. Some studies in the past including an experimental study by the authors have shown the importance of cross effects between axial and lateral soil restraints on the pipeline during oblique axial/lateral pipeline/soil relative movements. In this numerical study a three-dimensional continuum finite element model is developed using ABAQUS/Standard software. The model has been calibrated against the centrifuge tests conducted by the authors. The numerical model successfully reproduces the ultimate loads and also the shape of failure surfaces observed during physical tests. The numerical model will be used to extend the physical investigation results by parametric studies in future works.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".