This paper presents Santa Clara Valley Water District's (SCVWD) approach to addressing their first high profile water main failure including their application of failure investigation, emergency condition assessment, pipe...
This paper presents a theoretical basis for the rerounding effect of internal pressure on deflection and stresses in buried pipe. The nonlinear differential equations governing pipe-soil interaction of deflected buried flexible or semi-rigid pipe...
Pipeline systems in power plants have a unique set of factors quite different from pipeline systems in municipalities. Typical municipalities have hundreds of miles of pipelines and focus on the inspection of this underground...
Buried pipelines may be subjected to external live load effects not considered in the initial design during normal operation or during nearby construction activities. External live loads may be in the form of truck loads,...
The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) is a water conservation and reclamation district created by an act of the Texas Legislature in 1951. Today NTMWD’s Regional Water System provides drinking water to over 1.6...
Abstract: Waste disposal sites require subsurface gravity pipe systems to collect waste leachate and safely convey it to treatment and disposal facilities. As the availability of suitable land for waste disposal sites decreases and the cost to...