Use of CANDE and Design Codes to Assess Stability of Deteriorated Metal Culverts
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Abstract
Three design cases are used to study the effects of corrosion, burial depth, and staged construction on the capacity of steel culverts. The finite element packages CANDE and ABAQUS are used to perform the numerical investigation. The results of these numerical models are compared to current and proposed design methods to determine which approach gives the most conservative estimation of thrust force for both new and corroded culverts. Simple ring compression theory (springline thrust equal to half the soil prism load) produced thrusts that were 42%, 16% and 7% lower than those based on “staged construction” finite element analysis for the 4m diameter example culvert buried 1.5m, 3m, and 10m respectively. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Canadian, and proposed design equations all underestimated thrust compared to those finite element results (by 46%, 22% and 24% respectively for 4m diameter culvert at 1.5m burial depth, and with 12.5% wall thickness remaining). Thrust forces obtained using CANDE were slightly lower than those produced by ABAQUS, and it appears that CANDE can be used to estimate thrust forces after corrosion, even though the CANDE analysis featured uniform wall loss around the whole pipe circumference and ABAQUS was used to model wall loss across the invert only.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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