Journal
COMPUTERS AND GEOTECHNICS
Volume 166, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compgeo.2023.105957
Keywords
Buried pipelines; Discrete Element Method; Soil -pipe interaction; Triaxial compression test; Direct shear test; Calibration
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This paper presents a numerical methodology for efficient modeling of kinematic granular soil-pipe interaction at large deformations using the Discrete Element Method. The methodology is validated through standard tests and blind predictions, providing insights into the reaction and flow-around failure mechanism of deeply buried pipes.
This paper presents a numerical methodology based on the Discrete Element Method developed for the efficient modelling of kinematic granular soil-pipe interaction at large deformations. The methodology is based on a robust Bayesian procedure for calibrating micromechanical contact parameters using standard triaxial compression tests, does not rely on the back-analysis of physical model experiments, and produces accurate blind predictions of independent experimental measurements. The latter is demonstrated by extensively validating DEM models against measurements obtained from direct shear tests on sand performed during this study and published measurements from 1-g physical model experiments of uplift of rigid pipes buried in dense sand. In addition, we introduce different approaches that allow efficient modelling of deeply buried pipes, and we employ the methodology to investigate how the reaction from sand to rigid pipe uplift varies as the pipe embedment depth increases. Detailed numerical predictions provide insights into the flow-around failure mechanism that develops around the deeply buried pipes and on the existence of a critical embedment depth, beyond which the normalised reaction does not further increase with increasing pipe embedment. The outcomes of this study are applicable to the stress analysis of deeply buried pipes in practice and to the modelling of a variety of problems relevant to rigid objects buried deeply in granular soil.
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