• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2016

There are numerous factors that affect stress distribution in a buried pipe, such as the shape, size, and stiffness of the pipe, its burial depth, and the stiffness of the surrounding soil. In addition, the pipe can benefit from the soil arching effect to some extent, through which the overburden and surcharge pressure at the crown can be carried by the adjacent soil. As a result, the buried pipe needs to support only a portion of the load that is not transferred to the adjacent soil. This paper presents numerical efforts to investigate the stress distribution in the buried concrete pipe under various environmental conditions. To that end, a nonlinear elasto-plastic model for backfill materials was implemented into finite element software by a user-defined subroutine (user material, or UMAT) to more precisely analyze the soil behavior surrounding a buried concrete pipe subjected to surface loading. In addition, three different backfill materials with a native soil were selected to examine the material-specific stress distribution in pipe. The environmental conditions considering in this study the loading effect and void effects were investigated using finite element method. The simulation results provide information on how the pressures are redistributed, and how the buried concrete pipe behaves under various environmental conditions.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.1439-1443
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 지중 매설관 주변의 지하수 흐름을 이론적으로 규명해 보았다. 지하수 흐름에 있어서는 비압축, 비회전 흐름을 고려하였다. 지하수 흐름 해석시 복소 포텐셜을 이용하여 흐름을 정의하였는데 지중 매설관이 없는 경우의 균등흐름을 먼저 고려하였고 원 정리에 의해 지중 매설관의 영향을 기존의 균등흐름에 추가하였다. 복소 포텐셜의 선형성에 근거하여 두 개의 흐름을 중첩시킬 수 있으나 이때 특이점의 위치를 고려하여 적절한 복소 포텐셜을 적용함으로써 추가적인 특이점의 이미지를 삽입하지 않도록 하는 효율적인 해석이 필요하다. 최종적으로는 순환을 동반하는 지중 매설관 주변의 흐름을 복소 포텐셜 중첩을 통해 살펴보았고 그 경우 흐름에 의해 지중 매설관에 작용하는 작용력을 유도해 보았다.

• 한국지반공학회지:지반
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.31-48
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• 1987

지중에 매설된 관에는 관위의 흙무게나 지표면상재하중으로 인하여 연직견력이 작용하며, 지진이나 불등침하등으로 인하여 상향하중이 작용하는 경우도 있다. 본 연구에서는 Marston-Spangler이론을 새로운 방법으로 분석하여 관위의 흙무게로 인해 매설권에 작용하는 압력에 관하여 검토하였고, 매설연성관에 대한 재하실험을 실시하여 지표면상재하중으 로 인한 매설관의 거동특성을 연구하였다. 또 매설관의 인발저항(uplifting resistance)이론의 검토와 상향인발실험을 통하여 최대인발저항을 구하는 방법 등을 연구하였다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.29-42
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• 2014

This paper investigates the effects of micro-tunneling on buried pipelines parametrically. A simplified numerical approach was developed and various parametric studies have been conducted to evaluate the effects of ground settlements on the response of buried pipelines. The controlled parameters included the pipe stiffness, ground loss magnitude, and pipe location with respect to a micro-tunnel. Maximum settlement and curvature along a pipeline have been investigated and compared among others for different conditions. In addition, the numerical results have been compared with a theoretical method by Attewell et al. (1986), which is based on a Winkler type linear-elastic solution. The comparison indicated that the response of buried pipes to micro-tunneling-induced ground settlements highly depends on the soil-pipe interaction including the separation and slippage of pipe from soil with the effects of the investigated parameters. Therefore, rather than using the theoretical method directly, it would be a better assessment of the response of buried pipelines to consider the soil-pipe interaction in more realistic conditions.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.225-231
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• 2012

Fitness-for-Service is a useful technology to determine replacement timing, next inspection timing or in-service when nuclear power plant's buried pipes are damaged. If is possible for buried pipes to be aged by material loss, cracks and occlusion as operating time goes by. Therefore Fitness-for-Service technology for buried pipe is useful for plant industry to perform replacement and repair. Fitness-for-Service for buried pipe is studied in terms of existing code and standard for Fitness-for-Service and a current developing code case. Fitness-for-Service for buried pipe was performed according to Code Case N-806 developed by ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers).

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.611-621
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• 2023

This paper presents the results of a numerical investigation of the effect of geotextile reinforcement on underlying buried pipe behavior using PLAXIS 3D. In this study, variable parameters such as the in-plane stiffness of the geotextile, the pipe stiffness, the soil stiffness, the footing width, the geotextile width, and the location of the geotextile reinforcement layer are investigated. Deflections and bending moments acting on the pipe are evaluated for different combinations of variables and are presented graphically. It is observed that with an increase in the in-plane stiffness of the geotextile reinforcement, there is a tendency for a decrease in both deflections in the pipe and bending moments acting on the pipe. Conversely, with an increase in the pipe stiffness, geotextile reinforcement efficiency decreases. In the investigated region of soil stiffness, for the given pipe and geotextile stiffness, an optimum efficiency of geotextile is observed in medium dense soils. Further, it is shown that relative lengths of geotextile and footing has an important role on geotextile efficiency. Lastly, it is also demonstrated that relative location of geotextile layer with respect to the buried pipe plays an important role on the geotextile efficiency in reducing the bending moments acting on the pipe and deflections in the pipe. In general, geotextiles are more efficient in reducing the bending moments as opposed to reducing deflections of the pipe. Numerical validation is done with an experimental study from the literature to observe the applicability of the numerical model used.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2017

Most of existing buried pipes are composed of reinforced concrete. Reinforced concrete pipes have many problems such as aging, corrosion, leaking, etc. The polyethylene (PE) pipes have advantages to solve these problems. The plastic pipes buried underground are classified into a flexible pipe. National standard that has limited the long-term vertical deformation of the pipe to 5% for flexible pipes including PE pipe. This study presents a prediction for the long-term behavior of the polyethylene pipe based on ASTM D 5365. This prediction method is presented to estimate by using the statistical method from the initial deflection measurement data. We predict the behavior of long-term performance on the double-wall pipe and multi-wall pipe. As a result, it was found that the PE pipe will be sound enough more than 50 years if the compaction of soil around the pipe is more than 95% of the standard soil compaction density.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.91-101
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• 2019

최근 도심지내에서는 지반공동 복구공사, 관로교체 공사 등 생활의 편의성 확보를 위한 소규모 굴착공사가 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 지중매설관 하부의 미흡한 다짐관리로 인하여 부등침하가 발생할 경우, 관의 파손에 의한 피해를 저감하기 위해 관 하부를 보강할 수 있는 방안에 대하여 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 즉, 콘크리트매트와 팽창매트를 이용한 매설관 주변지반의 보강효과에 관한 평판재하시험을 실시하였다. 실험결과, 콘크리트매트와 팽창매트 보강에 따른 지중응력 감소율은 재하하중 크기에 따라 각각 약 46%~48% 및 39%~42%로 분석되었다. 즉, 콘크리트매트와 팽창매트의 지반보강효과에 기인하여, 연구에 적용된 각각의 재료는 매설관의 침하 및 매설관 하부지반의 변형을 감소시키는 효과가 있는 것으로 판단되었다. 이를 바탕으로 지중매설관 하부지반 또는 매설관 사이의 지반에 콘크리트매트 및 팽창매트를 보강한다면, 지중에서 예측하기 어려운 공동발생 및 지반침하에 따른 매설관 손상을 다소 방지할 수 있는 것으로 평가되었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.169-188
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• 2011

Response of buried flexible pipe-soil system is studied, through numerical analysis, with respect to deflection and buckling in a spatially varying soil media. In numerical modeling procedure, soil parameters are modeled as two-dimensional non-Gaussian homogeneous random field using Cholesky decomposition technique. Numerical analysis is performed using random field theory combined with finite difference numerical code FLAC 5.0 (2D). Monte Carlo simulations are performed to obtain the statistics, i.e., mean and variance of deflection and circumferential (buckling) stresses of buried flexible pipe-soil system in a spatially varying soil media. Results are compared and discussed in the light of available analytical solutions as well as conventional numerical procedures in which soil parameters are considered as uniformly constant. The statistical information obtained from Monte Carlo simulations is further utilized for the reliability analysis of buried flexible pipe-soil system with respect to deflection and buckling. The results of the reliability analysis clearly demonstrate the influence of extent of variation and spatial correlation structure of soil parameters on the performance assessment of buried flexible pipe-soil systems, which is not well captured in conventional procedures.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.93-101
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• 2023

In this study, a deep learning algorithm was used to diagnose electric potential signals obtained through CIPS and DCVG, used indirect inspection methods to confirm the soundness of buried pipes. The deep learning algorithm consisted of CNN(Convolutional Neural Network) model for diagnosing the electric potential signal and Grad CAM(Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping) for showing the flaw prediction point. The CNN model for diagnosing electric potential signals classifies input data as normal/abnormal according to the presence or absence of flaw in the buried pipe, and for abnormal data, Grad CAM generates a heat map that visualizes the flaw prediction part of the buried pipe. The CIPS/DCVG signal and piping layout obtained from the 3D finite element model were used as input data for learning the CNN. The trained CNN classified the normal/abnormal data with 93% accuracy, and the Grad-CAM predicted flaws point with an average error of 2m. As a result, it confirmed that the electric potential signal of buried pipe can be diagnosed using a CNN-based deep learning algorithm.