Interaction Behaviors of Longitudinal and Transverse Seismic Waves with Underground Geoengineering Objects

Main pipelines as long linear objects are vulnerable to dangerous natural and man-made influences. One of the technogenic sources is large-scale explosions, which cause a sharp fluctuations of soil and cause serious damage to underground pipelines. When calculating the strength of pipeline systems, it is assumed that the damage occurs mainly due to additional axial stretching. However, the destruction and damage of pipelines can occur during seismic impacts directed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the pipeline.

To assess the impact of longitudinal and transverse waves on the underground pipeline during seismic action a software-calculation module is developed. It implements a model of dynamic strength analysis, which allows estimating the magnitude of longitudinal and trans-verse seismic loads on the underground pipeline to establish safe parameters of seismic loads and geometric dimensions of the protected object. The final system of equations of motion of N nodes of a discrete system for a single length of the pipeline is presented as a system of 4N equations of the first order.

The efforts on the internal nodes are determined by the strain stresses at the displacement of the nodes of the adjacent rods. The efforts on the nodes of the pipe contour are the diffraction interaction of seismic waves in the soil with the pipe. The system of equations is supplemented by the corresponding initial and boundary conditions.

The dependences of the inflow of longitudinal and transverse pressure of explosive seismic pressure on the pipeline are established. The dependences of stresses in the pipeline of the diameter, thickness and type of soil are researched.