Behavior of Flexible Buried Pipes Under Geocell Reinforced Subbase Subjected to Repeated Loading

• Published in: International journal of geotechnical earthquake engineering Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 22 - 41
• Main Authors: Fattah, Mohammed Yousif, Hassan, Waqed Hammed, Rasheed, Sajjad Emad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey IGI Global 01.01.2018
• Subjects: Buried pipes; Dynamic loads; Earthquakes; Engineering; High density polyethylenes; Laboratories; Load; Mathematical models; Numerical models; Physical properties; Pipes; Polyvinyl chloride; Reinforcement; Repeated loading; Three dimensional models; Vibration

The present article constitutes an experimental investigation of the behavior of buried PVC pipes. A number of laboratory experiments were conducted using PVC pipes which were buried in a medium sand layer, below a subbase layer, reinforced with geocells. They were subject to repeated dynamic load a...