Abstract

The properties of backfill materials have a considerable influence on the behavior of buried flexible pipe. The paper discusses experiments using a middle sized steel test pit that were carried out to examine the behavior of a flexible pipe buried in a reinforced embankment with settlement. A biaxial load cell was developed in order to accurately measure the load acting on the buried pipe, and a model pipe, which was equipped with 20 such cells. The results showed that with settlement of the pipe, the arching action of the backfill progress and the vertical load that acts on the pipe greatly decreases.

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