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Numerical Modeling Aspects of Buried Pipeline—Fault Crossing

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Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering

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Onshore buried steel pipelines transporting oil and gas play a major role in the energy supply chain. Hence, when seismic areas are transversed, fault crossing might be inevitable, which may heavily endanger the pipeline integrity. Thus, the design of buried pipelines at fault crossing remains a research topic of great interest both for the industry and the academia. Experimental, analytical and numerical approaches are used for that purpose. In this chapter, the numerical modeling of pipelines subjected to faulting is addressed and the advantages and disadvantages of the available numerical approaches are highlighted. The impact of fault type on the pipeline mechanical behavior is investigated and numerical considerations, such as the geometrical nonlinearity, the ovalization and the internal pressure are evaluated using a simple, well-established and reliable numerical approach. The outcome of this study provides useful information and guidelines to practicing engineers for the analysis and design of buried pipelines at fault crossings.

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This research has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund—ESF) and Hellenic National Funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” (NSRF 2007–2013)—Research Funding Program “Aristeia II”, project “ENSSTRAM—Novel Design Concepts for Energy Related Steel Structures using Advanced Materials”, grant number 4916.

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    Vasileios E. Melissianos & Charis J. Gantes

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Melissianos, V.E., Gantes, C.J. (2017). Numerical Modeling Aspects of Buried Pipeline—Fault Crossing. In: Papadrakakis, M., Plevris, V., Lagaros, N. (eds) Computational Methods in Earthquake Engineering. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 44. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47798-5_1

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