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Article history: In practice, the steel pipe-jacking can be regarded as a thin-walled cylindrical shell mainly subjected to
Received 28 May 2016 jacking force in the axial direction and surrounded by the soil which is usually simplified and modeled as
Revised 22 August 2016 an elastic foundation. In this paper, the elastic buckling behavior of steel jacking pipes primarily under
Accepted 5 November 2016
axial compression and with the Pasternak foundation is analyzed by the finite strip method (FSM). The
elastic foundation is considered in the stiffness matrix through the strain energy, and the deformation
in the longitudinal direction is simulated by the series functions in FSM. A parametric study is conducted
Keywords:
to analyze buckling of cylindrical shells embedded in different elastic foundations. It indicates that the
Buckling design
Steel pipe-jacking
Pasternak foundation is more conducive to prevent buckling of cylindrical shells under axial compression.
Cylindrical shells The critical length and the lower bound of buckling loads are obtained, and they offer the basis for opti-
Compression mal design of steel pipe-jacking. Finally, the case study combined with the buckling accident in the steel
Elastic foundation pipe-jacking event is presented. The present buckling analysis of soil-embedded cylindrical shells under
Finite strips axial compression provides design guidance for steel pipe-jacking construction.
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140 L. Zhen et al. / Engineering Structures 132 (2017) 139151
Slurry Mixing
and Pumping
Ground Surface Plant
Slurry Pipe
elastic foundation in modeling and design analysis, so that the pressure or external pressure, and they are more suitable for the
effect of pipe-soil interaction is not neglected. study of buried pipes. However, the axial load is dominated for
Many researchers have studied the buckling problem of a steel pipe-jacking in construction stage, and buckling of steel jack-
cylindrical shell embedded in an elastic medium. Forrestal and ing pipes is more prone to occur.
Herrmann [2] conducted early research about the stability of a Mandal and Calladine [11] conducted self-weight buckling
cylindrical shell embedded in an elastic medium and loaded by a experiments and non-linear finite element analysis of thin, open-
far-field hydrostatic pressure [3]. Luscher [4] investigated the top, fixed-base, small-scale silicone rubber cylindrical shells, and
failure of the flexible soil-surrounded tubes using a combined the material, structure and loads considered were still fundamen-
experimental and theoretical approach. Soil was assumed to be a tally different from those of steel pipe-jacking. Sheng et al. [12],
thick-walled cylinder surrounding tubes. The study indicated that Bagherizadeh et al. [13] and Shen [14] analyzed functionally-
buckling rather than compressive yielding might be the controlling graded cylindrical shells embedded in Pasternak elastic foundation
mode of failure for thin-walled, smooth metallic tubes supported under axial load. Sheng et al. [12] placed emphasis on the eigen-
evenly, though the medium-dense sand and the surrounding soil value solution for buckling of cylindrical shells. Bagherizadeh
increased the buckling resistance of a flexible tube tremendously et al. [13] achieved the closed-form solutions for the critical
over that of an unsupported tube. Duns and Butterfield [5] devel- mechanical buckling loads of the FGM cylindrical shells sur-
oped a simple theoretical prediction of buckling load for cylinders rounded by elastic medium based on a higher-order shear defor-
buried in an ideal elastic medium. The solution was derived from mation shell theory (HSDT). While Shen [14] put forward the
Donnells stability equation for cylindrical shells extended to boundary layer theory and applied it to analyze postbuckling of
include the effect of the surrounding medium. Yun and Kyriakides composite cylindrical shells surrounded by tensionless Pasternak
[6] analyzed buckling of buried pipelines under compressive loads elastic foundation. Similar to the work by Shen [14], Li and Qiao
induced by seismic action through beam and shell modes. Che- [15] recently studied the buckling and postbuckling of an anisotro-
ney [7] built a 2-D model and assumed that the Winkler spring pic laminated thin cylindrical shell of finite length subjected to
constant was taken as a function of the mode number in buckling. combined loading of external pressure and axial compression using
The solution represented an upper bound on local buckling of bur- the boundary layer theory. Although these studies are similar to
ied flexible tubes that might also be affected by imperfections in the condition of the steel pipe-jacking, the more practical
geometry and residual internal stresses. Muc [8] studied the influ- method is still needed for design and construction of pipe-
ence of unilateral friction boundary on shell prebuckling deforma- jacking projects.
tion which was illustrated by the example of a cylindrical shell Numerical methods have been widely used in modeling and
loaded locally by external pressure and restrained by a rigid or analysis of buckling of cylindrical shells. In addition to the tradi-
elastic outer wall. Moore et al. [9] presented the solutions capable tional methods, like finite differences, finite elements method
of assessing the elastic stability of circular structures in square, cir- (FEM), boundary element method (BEM), etc., differential quadra-
cular and rectangular zones of elastic solid. Fok [3] used the energy ture (DQ) [16], discrete singular convolution (DSC) [17,18] and
method together with a RayleighRitz trial function to analyze meshless method [1921] have also gradually risen. However,
buckling of a long cylindrical shell embedded in an elastic material the complicated modeling, tedious mathematical formulas, and/
and loaded by a far-field hydrostatic pressure. If the surrounding or programming applicability existed in the above methods, cause
medium is incompressible, the solution is very similar to that given inconvenience when used in practice. The finite strip method
by Forrestal and Herrmann [2]. Otherwise, the solution gives lower (FSM) is used extensively for reducing partial differential equations
predictions for the buckling load and provides better agreement to ordinary or partial differential equations of a lower order. Con-
with experiments. Kang et al. [10] used a pipe-spring model for sequently, much shorter computing time is achieved for solution
buckling analyses of buried corrugated steel pipes. The spring coef- with comparable accuracy [22,23]. Especially suitable for the struc-
ficients in the pipe-spring model were calculated using the static tures which can be divided into strip elements, the series functions
analyses of soil-structure models. The ultimate or critical strengths are defined along the longitudinal direction instead of longitudinal
determined were compared well with those from the American element division in FEM or other numerical methods. Thus, the
Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). The majority of the above studies model in FSM is much simplified as well, particularly useful for
focused on the buckling problem of pipes subjected to internal preliminary design and analysis.
L. Zhen et al. / Engineering Structures 132 (2017) 139151 141
where Y m m m m m
u , Y v , Y w , Y /x and Y /y are the longitudinal series functions,
2. Theoretical background closely associated with the end boundary conditions. Reddy [24]
defined the general form of the series function according to the
The elastic foundation model is frequently used for simulating buckling eigen-function. For the boundary condition of two simply
pipe-soil interaction. The Winkler foundation model is one of the supported ends, the function can be expressed as:
simplest forms, and it only considers compressive deformation of 8 m l y
m
the surrounding soil as a kind of discontinuum. While the Paster- < Y w Y /x sin ma
nak foundation model considers the shear effect by setting the 0 lm mp; m 1; 2; . . . 2
: Y m Y m lm cos lm y
shearing layer between the foundation and the structure, and it /y /x a a
where
2 3 2 3 2 3
r A11 A12 A16 B11 B12 B16 D11 D12 D16
45 6 7 6 7 6 7
A 4 A12 A22 A26 5; B 4 B12 B22 B26 5; D 4 D12 D22 D26 5
o x A16 A26 A66 B16 B26 B66 D16 D26 D66
H11 H12
and H , in which Aij are the extensional stiffness
H12 H22
coefficients, Bij are the bending-extension coupling stiffness coeffi-
cients, Dij are the bending stiffness coefficients, and Hij are the
transverse shear stiffness coefficients.
Fig. 2. The model of cylindrical shells by the finite strip method based on the first- Substituting the related variables into Eq. (6), it is can be
order shear deformable plate theory. obtained that:
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b1 b2 be
i k j
b be/2 be/2
(a) (b)
Fig. 3. The low order finite strip with three node lines (LO3).
U U e1 U e2 U e3 U e4 7 @ Pe @U e V e W e
e K ip e K io e K op e
@fdg @fdge
Considering the finite strip element, the strain energy due to the
Pasternak foundation is given by Xiang et al. [25] as K ts e K ef e kK g e fdge 0 10
RR h 2
i
where k is a unknown load factor; 0 is the zero vector. It is neces-
V e 12 kw Gw2;x w2;y dxdy
sary to introduce the drilling rotation freedom /z (the rotation
X
r X
r 8
about the z axis) and a fictitious stiffness relating to the drilling
fdgem K ef mn fdgen
m1 n1
rotation [22,23] in the present thin-walled structural analysis.
From the governing equations of the plate strip element, the
e
e
e T
where K ef mn
Ref mn Ref mn and governing equations of the whole structure in the linear stability
analysis can be obtained as:
ZZ h
e 1
Ref mn
kfC w gT Y m n T m n
w Y w fC w gGfC w g;x Y w Y w fC w g;x K kK g 0 11
2
i
fC w gT Y m n where K is the stiffness matrix, and K K ip K io K op
w;y Y w;y fC w g dxdy
K ts K ef , respectively, representing in the plane stiffness matrix,
where k is the coefficient of subgrade reaction, G is the shear mod- in and out of plane coupling stiffness matrix, out of plane stiffness
ulus of the subgrade. matrix, transverse shear stiffness matrix, and elastic foundation
The Winkler foundation can be regarded as a special form of the stiffness matrix; K g is the geometric matrix. Interested readers
Pasternak foundation if the shear modulus (G) is set to 0. may refer to the works of Cheung [22,23] for more details of FSM.
In the buckling process, the potential energy W e due to the
applied initial stresses (r0x , r0y and r0xy ) can be expressed as [23,26]: 3. Validation
ZZ
t 3.1. Numerical model
We r0x w2;x r0y w2;y 2r0xy w;x w;y dxdy
2
ZZ
t3 Cylindrical shells embedded in the Winkler foundation and
r0x /2x;x /2y;x r0y /2x;y /2y;y
24 Pasternak foundation under axial compression with two simply
X r X r supported ends are analyzed using the aforementioned FSDPT-
2r0xy /x;x /x;y /y;x /y;y dxdy fdgem K g mn fdgen 9 based FSM. The cylindrical shell is approximatively modeled as a
m1 n1
series of plates, and a 3-D pipe-soil model is simplified as a 2-D
where K g emn K g1 emn K g2 emn , and profile of the pipe based on FSM. The effect of the elastic founda-
tion is considered in the stiffness matrix through the strain energy,
e
e T and the longitudinal deflection is simulated by series functions.
K g1 emn Rg1 mn Rg1 mn
ZZ h Hence, the cylindrical shell can be modeled as a regular polygon
e t
Rg1 mn r0x fC w gT;x Y mw Y nw fC w g;x r0y fC w gT Y mw;y Y nw;y fC w g as shown in Fig. 4. Each side of the regular polygon denotes a strip
2
i element. The low order finite strip with three node lines (LO3)
2r0xy fC w gT;x Y m n
w Y w;y fC w g dxdy (Fig. 3) is chosen, of which the deflection and the rotation are taken
into account.
e
e T
K g2 emn Rg2 mn Rg2 mn 3.2. Verification and comparison
ZZ h
t3
Rg2 emn r0x fC /x gT;x Y m/x Y n/x fC /x g;x fC /y gT;x Y m/y Y n/y fC /y g;x In theory, the increasing number of plate strips emulating the
24
T m n T cylindrical shells will lead to higher accuracy and relatively low
r y fC /x g Y /x ;y Y /x ;y fC /x g
0
fC /y g Ym n
/y ;y Y /y ;y fC /y g
i computational efficiency. The different cases with cylindrical shells
T m n
2r xy fC /x g;x Y /x Y /x ;y fC /x g
0
fC /y gT;x Y m n
/y Y /y ;y fC /y g dxdy
embedded in the different elastic foundation are compared with
the specific example given in the paper of Shen [14], and the com-
The governing equation of the plate strip element can be formu- parisons with the FSM predictions are shown in Fig. 5. The results
lated by applying the principle of minimum potential energy, demonstrate that the buckling load converges quickly when the
which is in the partial differentiation as: number of strips increases. It is sufficient to meet the accuracy
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The dimensionless buckling load is represented as 0.9 The standard formula based
on the Donnell's theory
a rx =rcr 12 0.8
500 1.2
L/ 14.14 28.28 56.57 70.71 84.85 113.13 141.41
The standard formula based
FSM (s) 80.23 81.23 79.92 77.50 79.94 78.72 77.39
350 0.8
300
0.6
250
Local buckling Global buckling
200 0.4
n=3 FEM
0.9 n=1 The standard formula based
1.0
on the Donnell's theory
0.8
0.8 The lower bound
0.7 n=1 n=2 of local buckling
0.6 0.6
0.5
0.4
0.4 Local buckling
0.2
0.3
0.2 0.0
0 20 40 60 80
0.1 (b) The slenderness ratio L/
0.0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Fig. 9. Effect of diameter-to-thickness ratio (d/t) on buckling behavior of cylindrical
The slenderness ratio L/ shells: (a) a constant d/t, (b) changing d/t.
under the certain buckling mode. Diameter to thickness ratio Lcr1 (m) Lcr2 (m) Lcr3 (m)
For the cylindrical shell with the inner diameter (d) of 2 m and d/t = 50 1.4 4 8
the diameter-thickness ratio (d/t) of 100, there are three obvious d/t = 100 4.4 11 22
local minimum (critical) values among all local buckling loads, d/t = 150 8.1 21 42
excluding the region of the comparatively small slenderness ratios d/t = 200 13 32 64
(L/q). The three local minimum values correspond to the critical
lengths of the cylindrical shells of 4.4 m, 11.0 m and 22.0 m,
respectively. If the diameter-to-thickness ratio (d/t) of the steel
with those of FEM. Moreover, the former is relatively smaller and
jacking pipe keeps a constant as 100, the buckling behavior is
thus provides a lower bound for design without considering com-
almost not affected by the dimension of the steel jacking pipe in
plex spring models in FEM.
the cylindrical shell case as shown in Fig. 9(a). As demonstrated
The coefficient of subgrade reaction (k) in the Winkler founda-
in Fig. 9(b), if the wall thickness (t) maintains the same, the transi-
tion is closely related to the geological condition and the buried
tion slenderness ratio (L/q) distinguishing the local buckling and
depth of steel jacking pipes. Two sets of the coefficient of subgrade
global bucking increases as the diameter-thickness ratio (d/t)
reaction (k), a small one and a practical one in the specific project,
increases. It suggests that the size effect indeed exists in buckling
are selected for comparison as shown in Fig. 11. The results imply
of cylindrical shells subjected to axial compression. The approxi-
that the buckling loads are enhanced when the cylindrical shells
mate critical lengths (Lcr) for different diameter-thickness ratio
are embedded in the Winkler foundation. When the coefficient of
(d/t) are presented in Table 1. For local buckling, the lower bound
subgrade reaction (k) is small, e.g., k = 10,000 N/m3, the turning
is about 60% of the classical solution based on the Donnells theory.
point is still evident between the regions of local buckling and glo-
bal bucking. The buckling loads are almost the same as the results
4.3. Buckling of cylindrical shells embedded in the Winkler foundation of cylindrical shells without the Winkler foundation in the region
of local buckling; but they increase in the region of global buckling
As shown in Fig. 10, the results of FSM for buckling of cylindrical as expected. When the coefficient of subgrade reaction (k)
shells embedded in the Winkler foundation is highly consistent approaches the value considered in the practical project, e.g.,
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1.1 normal and shear deformation, were developed, and the Pasternak
FSM foundation model is one of the widely recognized two-parameter
1.0
Dimensionless buckling load x/cr
FEM models. The general commercial finite element software, like ABA-
0.9 The standard formula based
QUS, cannot provide such a complex foundation model directly.
on the Donnell's theory
0.8 But it is convenient to implement this two-parameter foundation
0.7 model in FSM just through modifying the stiffness matrix.
The two parameters in the Pasternak foundation model, i.e., the
0.6
coefficient of subgrade reaction (k) and the shear modulus of the
0.5 Local buckling subgrade (G), are analyzed in Fig. 12. The shear modulus (G) of
k = 10000 N/m
0.4 the foundation is related to the elastic modulus (E) of the founda-
tion. So the shear modulus (G) of 961,500 N/m according to the
0.3
practical projects is calculated, and as a comparison, the shear
0.2 Global buckling modulus (G) of 1,923,000 N/m is also chosen. The buckling loads
0.1 are greatly increased when the Pasternak foundation is considered
0.0 in the model as shown in Fig. 12. Buckling behavior of cylindrical
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 shells is changed as well. The transition point again appears in
The slenderness ratio L/ the intersection region between local buckling and global bucking
for cylindrical shells embedded in the Pasternak foundation. For
Fig. 10. Buckling behavior of cylindrical shells embedded in the Winkler the greater shear modulus (G), the local buckling load increases
foundation.
before the global buckling occurs. It suggests that the shear effect
enhances the resistance of the foundation within a certain range
1.1
of the length and leads to increased local buckling load. Finally,
the global buckling loads trend to accord. It seems that there is
1.0
the lower bound of the local buckling load in the region of global
Dimensionless buckling load x/cr
Table 2
The critical length for different coefficients of subgrade reaction (k) in the Winkle foundation.
The length of cylindrical shells Lcr1 (m) Lcr2 (m) Lcr3 (m) Lcr4 (m)
k=0 4.4 11 22
k = 10,000 N/m3 4.4 11 22
k = 312,500 N/m3 4.4 10.8 22 43.5
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3
1.2 where D 121
Et
m2 is the flexural stiffness. The curvature parameter
The standard formula based
on the Donnell's theory (or so-called the Batdorf parameter) for cylindrical shells under
Dimensionless buckling load x/cr
0.0 12Z 2
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 k1 17
p2
The slenderness ratio L/
For Z P 2.85
Fig. 12. Buckling behavior of cylindrical shells embedded in the Pasternak p
foundation. 4 3
k Z 0:702Z 18
p2
1.2
and it corresponds to the case before the global buckling occurs.
The standard formula based The diameter-to-thickness ratio (d/t) in the practical pipe-
jacking engineering is usually 100, and the Poissons ratio (v) is
1.1
Dimensionless buckling stress x/cr
0.1
d=3m, d/t=100 Dp2 p2 E
d=4m, d/t=100 rcr 0:702 2
Z 0:014 1=2
21
0.0 tL 121 m2
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
The slenderness ratio L/ However, the effect of the length-to-diameter ratio (L/d) is not
considered when L/d P 0.123 because it is not accurate any more
Fig. 13. Size effect on buckling behavior of cylindrical shells embedded in the for relatively long cylindrical shells.
Pasternak foundation.
Rotter [29] compared the different European standards used in
different countries for buckling of cylindrical shells under axial
5. Design practice compression. For the sake of convenience needed in practice, the
knock-down factor ax is defined to take imperfection of cylindrical
5.1. Current design standards shells caused by different situations into account in the ECCS
(European Convention for Constructional Steelwork) code. Hence,
The classical thin shell theory, i.e., the Donnells theory is com- the design buckling load is defined as
monly used as the standard formula in various standards for buck-
ling analysis of cylindrical shells under axial compression because
rRk ax rRc rRc rcr 22
of its simplicity. The critical buckling stress based on the Donnells wk pr
where ax is formulized as ax 0:62
, where
wk 1:44t
. wk
t
1
Q
theory is simply expressed as 11:91 t
which the effect of soil is not included. Even with the conservative The approximate envelope of steel jacking pipes embedded in
stability design practice, buckling accidents still occur in practice. the Pasternak foundation can be expressed as:
8
5.2. Design for steel pipe-jacking > 0:009L=q 1 0 6 L=q < 13:05
>
>
< 0:88 13:05 6 L=q < 29:23
The traditional design of steel pipe-jacking is similar to the rx =rcr
> 0:024L=q 1:58
> 29:23 6 L=q < 44:37 24
design of buried pipes. Confining pressure which may cause the >
:
0:51 44:37 6 L=q
deformation of the cross section is the main factor considered in
design. In addition, the axial compression stability analysis is based for the lower bound
on buckling of pure cylindrical shells, and the effect of the elastic
8
foundation, e.g., the pipe-soil interaction, is rarely taken into
< 0:005L=q 1
> 0 6 L=q < 26:62
account in stability analysis.
rx =rcr 0:03L=q 1:94 26:62 6 L=q < 35:24
Cylindrical shells embedded in the Pasternak foundation with >
: 25
two simply supported ends under axial compression is closer to 0:88 35:24 6 L=q
the practical situation of steel pipe-jacking as demonstrated in for the upper bound
the above parametric study. Besides, the buckling strength under
Considering the foundation effect in the steel jacking pipe anal-
the axial compression increases sharply under the circumstances.
ysis, the maximum increment from the critical local buckling load
Although the parametric analysis in Section 4.4 is for an ideal
is approximate 49.15% in the lower bound and 137.29% in the
structure and imperfections from manufacturing errors, construc-
upper bound, while the maximum increment from the global buck-
tion, surroundings, etc. are not considered, the buckling behaviors,
ling load is approximate 1175% in the lower bound and 2100% in
such as the buckling load, the critical length (or the slenderness
the upper bound. It means that the design jacking force can be
ratio), and the size effect, are still meaningful in design.
improved on the basis of the traditional design.
The diameter-to-thickness ratio (d/t) in the current steel jacking
In addition, the critical length for different dimensions of the
pipe is usually about 100 due to the material strength and cost effi-
steel jacking pipes can be obtained by the buckling analysis. The
ciency. The representative stratum parameters (the elastic modu-
minimum value corresponds to the critical length due to the
lus of the foundation of 2.5 MPa and Poissons ratio of 0.3) in
volatility of the buckling load curve. The critical length is affected
Shanghai, China are selected. Assume that the buried depth is
by the dimension of steel jacking pipes and the foundation param-
8 m. Thus, the coefficient of subgrade reaction (k) is computed as
eters. However, it is quite difficult to obtain empirical formulas
312,500 N/m3, and the shear modulus of the subgrade (G) is
considering these parameters within the scope of the current anal-
961,500 N/m. Different diameters with constant diameter-
ysis. Therefore, re-analysis through FSM is needed for the steel
thickness ratio (d/t) of 100 are analyzed in Section 4.4. Lines 14
jacking pipe under the specifically given conditions.
in Fig. 14 represent the steel jacking pipes with the respective
diameters of 14 m, which are commonly used in the practical
steel pipe-jacking projects, embedded in the Pasternak foundation. 6. Case study
The range of the buckling load is approximately from 51.7% to
114% of the standard formula based on the Donnells theory. 6.1. Background to the engineering accident
Compared with line 0, which represents the pure cylindrical
shell case, if its lower bound is regarded as a benchmark of the tra- Two sets of steel pipelines (#1 and #2) abreast with the outer
ditional design, the envelope of pure (without any foundation diameter (D) of 2.0 m, thickness of 20 mm, and buried depth of
being considered) steel jacking pipes can be approximately 79 m, were used in Shanghai water supply project for branch
expressed as the following piecewise function pipelines. The whole branch pipeline was constructed by the
8
> 0:02L=q 0:95 0 6 L=q < 15:59 pipe-jacking method. A total length from working well #44 to
>
>
< 0:59 15:59 6 L=q < 35:08 #46, shown in Fig. 15, was 1357 m. The measured value of axial
rx =rcr 23 deflection is exhibited in Fig. 16. When pipe #2 was jacked to
>
> 0:02L=q 1:21 35:08 6 L=q < 62:36
>
: 515 m, it began to deviate from the design axis to the left. Although
0:04 62:36 6 L=q the remedial treatments had been taken for returning to the right
direction, it had to stop pipe-jacking while severe local deflection
1.2 probably caused by the local buckling (shown in Fig. 17) appeared
The standard formula based
1.1 on the Donnell's theory
and some connectors in flanges were damaged. The maximum axis
Dimensionless buckling load x/cr
River
Building
Pipe #2 River
5m
515 m 15 m Deflection area
Intermediate Jacking
jacking stations
machine
Section 9 Section 8 Section 7 Section 6 Section 5 Section 4 Section 3 Section 2 Section 1
21 m 51 m 2m 28.2 m
-660
-619.3 -645.2
-600 -587.8
-604.4
-541.7-566.2
-496.2
-500 -473.8
Axial deflection (cm)
-400 -377.2
-329.8
-300 -279.3-302.6
-239.2
-202.7-226.8
-200 -165.9
-129.1
-101.7 Design axis
-100 -79.1
-54.6
-36.2
-20 3.6 6.5 4.6 2.8 -1.6 -10.8
0 579 584
20
494 498 502 506 511 515 521 525 530 533 537 541 545 549 553 558 562 570 573 577 582 586 597
Distance from #44 working well (m)
6.3. Analysis of steel pipe-jacking accident is 0.3 and the shear stress limit (smax) is 5 kPa. Because the average
buried depth is 8 m from the ground to the axis of jacking pipes
According to the practical condition, pipe #2 can be simplified and the average unit weight of soil is 18 kN/m3, the maximum fric-
as a cylindrical shell with two simply supported ends under axial tional resistance can reach 43.2 kPa based on the friction factor (l)
compression embedded in elastic foundation. In practical engi- of 0.3, which far exceeds the shear stress limit (smax) of 5 kPa. Thus,
neering, there are eight jacks providing a total of 12,000 kN of jack- the frictional resistance can be considered to be 5 kPa. When pipe
ing force although the design jacking force is 4500 kN. The steel #2 was jacked to 515 m cumulatively, the frictional resistance
jacking pipe is assumed as an ideal elastoplastic material with reached 16,171 kN in the most unfavorable conditions, which is
the Youngs modulus (E) of 206 GPa, Poissons ratio (v) of 0.3, and greater than the largest jacking force of 12,000 kN available in con-
yield stress (ry) of 235 MPa. struction stage. It is estimated that the maximum jacking force
The jacking force is mainly used for overcoming the frictional actually acted on jacking pipes probably approached 12,000 kN
resistance. The friction factor (l) on the pipesoil contact surface for the jacking pipes going forward smoothly. Due to the restraint
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Table 3
Soil properties of construction site.
Note: cs = Unit weight of soil; e = Void ratio; Es0.10.2 = Compression modulus; wn = Moisture content; wp = Plastic limit; wL = Liquid limit; c = Cohesion under direct shear
consolidation; u = Internal friction angle under direct shear consolidation; Cc = Compression index of soil; N63.5 = Blow counts of SPT.
0.00-1.20 m 1-1 The buckling section stopped the jacking due to the large deflec-
Miscellaneous fill
tion. The measurement of the residual stress shows the maximum
2-1 axial residual stress is close to 350 MPa which is far more than the
Silty clay yielding stress of 235 MPa. They are mainly distributed in the
0.60-3.00 m region of local buckling as shown in Fig. 20. It is unrecoverable
plastic deflection. In order to ensure the safety of the pipeline
3-1 and control the construction cost, the steel plates of 0.02 m in
2.30-4.80 m Muddy silty clay thickness were welded on the inner wall of the pipeline. The area
of the steel plate was more than the deformed region (see Fig. 21).
3- interlayer The remaining length was finished by the jacking pipes from the
Muddy silty clay working well #46. The accident serves to show that on one hand,
sandwiched the design jacking force is rather conservative and cannot meet
4.20-6.60 m between clayey silt the demand of the practical project; on the other hand, the local
-7.00 m buckling is more likely to occur due to the large axial jacking force.
The design of steel pipe-jacking as shown in Fig. 22 can be adopted
3-1 to improve the local buckling capacity of pipe design when the
-8.00 m Muddy silty clay Pasternak foundation model is used. The lower bound of the steel
Center of pipe #2
jacking pipes with the outer diameter (D) of 2.0 m embedded in
6.50-9.60 m
the Pasternak foundation can be expressed as:
8
-9.00 m 4 > 0 6 L=q < 29
< 1:0
Muddy clay
rx =rcr 0:03L=q 1:97 29 6 L=q < 38 26
>
:
Fig. 18. Location of pipe #2. 0:7 L=q P 38
inner diameter
the stress of the steel jacking pipes increased accordingly as the
deflection developed. The axial buckling mode of the deflection 1.96
section of 85 m steel jacking pipe embedded in the Pasternak foun-
dation is presented in Fig. 19(a) based on FSM. It suggests that local
1.94
buckling may occur, though the theoretical critical buckling load is
far greater than the actual value. Since the average confining pres-
sure reached 144 kPa, the combination of the jacking force and the 1.92
Horizontal inner diameter
surrounding soil pressure possibly led to the occurrence of local
Vertical inner diameter
buckling and inward deflection on the part of the pipeline as 1.90
shown in Fig. 17. The measured deflections of horizontal and ver- Distance from the jacking machine (m)
tical inner diameters were recorded, respectively, and they are (b) The measured diameter deflections of inner
shown in Fig. 19(b). The shape of the deformed pipeline is similar diameter of steel jacking pipe
to the half-waving of local buckling on the cylindrical shells, as
shown in Fig. 19(a). Fig. 19. Buckling analysis of steel jacking pipe.
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0.75 m
1.5 m
1.2 m
0.7 m
8.0 m 8.0 m
Local deflection
Local deflection
1.930 m
1.930 m
1.990 m
area
1.930 m
area
1.950 m
2.000 m
(a) Section 2 of pipe #2 (b) Section 6 of pipe #2
Fig. 20. Diagram of local buckling of pipe #2.
0.020 m
0.020 m
0.020 m
0.020 m
0.700 m 0.750 m
Wall of pipe Wall of pipe
(a) Section 2 of pipe #2 (b) Section 6 of pipe #2
Fig. 21. Reinforcement of the local buckling section.
The local buckling load increases by approximate 5.2669.49% val of 200 m. The remaining length of 780 m just needs three inter-
and the global buckling load increases by approximate 18.64 mediate jacking stations. Each of them has eight jacks providing a
1650%. Therefore, the scope of the design jacking force should be total of 12,000 kN of jacking force. According to the aforemen-
increased to 4737 kN to 7627 kN and 5339 kN to 78,750 kN accord- tioned method, the remaining length of 780 m was finally com-
ing to the lower bounds of the local buckling and the global buck- pleted in success.
ling, respectively.
A single section of steel jacking pipes is suggested to be 8 m 7. Conclusions
according to the critical length. The maximum frictional resistance
of 200 m steel jacking pipes will be 6280 kN. As shown in Fig. 22, In this study, the finite strip method (FSM) is used for buckling
the jacking pipe length of 200 m is not the most unfavorable analysis of cylindrical shells under the axial compression to simu-
length. Thus, it is suitable to modify the design jacking force to late the construction practice of steel pipe-jacking, and its effi-
7000 kN if the intermediate jacking station is set up with the inter- ciency and accuracy in design of analysis of steel jacking pipes
are demonstrated. The following concluding remarks are drawn
from this study:
1.2
The standard formula based
on the Donnell's theory The main advantages of FSM considered in this study for buck-
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