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APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 291-298Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apor.2007.01.004
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submarine pipeline; scour; sandy seabed; current; vortex-induced vibration
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Most of the existing researches either focus on vortex-induced vibrations (VIVs) of a pipeline near a rigid boundary, or on seabed scour around a fixed pipeline. In this study, the coupling effects between pipeline vibration and sand scour are investigated experimentally. Experimental results indicate that there often exist two phases in the process of sand scouring around the pipeline with an initial embedment, i.e. Phase I: scour beneath pipe without VIV, and Phase II: scour with VIV of pipe. During Phase II, the amplitude of pipe vibration gets larger and its frequency gets smaller while the sand beneath the pipe is being scoured, and finally the pipe vibration and sand scour get into an equilibrium state. This indicates that sand scouring has an influence upon not only the amplitude of pipe vibration but also its frequency. Moreover, the equilibrium scour depth decreases with increasing initial gap-to-diameter ratio for both the fixed pipes and vibrating pipes. For a given value of initial gap-to-diameter ratio (e(0)/D), the vibrating pipe may induce a deeper scour hole than the fixed pipe in the examined range of initial gap-to-diameter ratios (-0.25 < e(0)/D < 0.75). (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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