The Influence of the Twin-Parallel-Tunnels Passing through Construction on Buried Oil & Gas Pipeline

Abstract:

To South-to-north water transfer project as the background, and based on the Peck formula, this paper educes the formula of settlement and internal force which caused by disturbance of the tunnel of the buried pipeline. Considering the different depths of the buried pipelines, the different diameter of the tunnel, the spacing interval between different tunnels and the depth of different tunnels and so on, this paper analyzes the effect of the twin-parallel-tunnels passing through construction on buried oil & gas pipeline. The research shows that the tunnel diameter has no effect on the width of surface subsider and the deflection of buried oil & gas pipelines, but it has great influence on pipeline internal forces. The spacing interval of tunnel has almost no influence on pipe deflection but has effect on the maximum internal force. Different depths of the tunnel contributes much to the rule of pipeline settlement and the distribution of internal forces, and it has greater influence on the internal force than on the pipe deflection . The relationship between the effect and the depth of the tunnels is non-linear. With the tunnel depth increasing, the hazardous conditions of the pipelines show significant improvement.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 204-208)
• Pages: 1312-1317
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.204-208.1312
• Online since: October 2012
• Authors: Peng Ren, Yun Peng Li, Kai Le Jiang, Hui Jiao Wang, Miao Liu
• Keywords: Bending Deformation, Oil & Gas Pipeline, Settlement, Shallow-Buried, Twin-Tunnel

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DOI: 10.1061/41202(423)201