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Advantages of Burying A Pipe

This document discusses buried piping systems. It covers soil properties and classifications, principles of soil mechanics, and the interaction between soil and both rigid and flexible pipes. The document notes that burying pipes provides advantages like reducing plant congestion, allowing shorter routes, and protecting pipes from temperature changes and wind loads. However, it also presents disadvantages like requiring design of pipes to handle soil and surface loads, careful trenching and backfill to prevent settlement, uncertainties in design parameters, and challenges around identification and repair of failures.

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Advantages of Burying A Pipe

This document discusses buried piping systems. It covers soil properties and classifications, principles of soil mechanics, and the interaction between soil and both rigid and flexible pipes. The document notes that burying pipes provides advantages like reducing plant congestion, allowing shorter routes, and protecting pipes from temperature changes and wind loads. However, it also presents disadvantages like requiring design of pipes to handle soil and surface loads, careful trenching and backfill to prevent settlement, uncertainties in design parameters, and challenges around identification and repair of failures.

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Introduction to Buried Piping


! Soil Properties & Classification
! Some Principles of Soil Mechanics
! Rigid Pipe - Soil Interaction
! Flexible Pipe - Soil Interaction
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Why burying a pipe?


Advantages of burying a pipe
! Reduces plant congestion and avoids existing above
ground obstructions.
! Allows for shorters route (fewer bends).
! Soil can be used as uniform supporting, no above
ground supports and constructions are needed.
! Protection from ambient temperature changes.
! Protection from wind loads.
! Long stretches of buried pipe act as a virtual anchor
and the need for large axial restraints or expansion
loops is eliminated.
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Why burying a pipe?


Disadvantages of burying a pipe
! Piping has to be designed for soil and surface loads,
which makes the stress and flexibility of the piping
more complex.
! Careful trenching and backfill is required to avoid
excessive soil settlement.
! There are some ‘uncertain’ parameters involved in
the design of buried piping.
! Identification and repair of failures is more
problematic (quality control is very important for
buried systems).
! Corrosion challenges, coathing/cathodic protection
might be required.

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