To investigate the influence of the filling thickness and internal water pressure on the stability of a water supply pipeline, a typical pipeline of the Sun Mountain Water Supply Project is selected as the research object. A numerical simulation method is adopted to establish a three-dimensional finite element model integrating a double-line pipeline-artificial fill-foundation to study the influence of different single-layer filling thicknesses and internal water pressures on the mechanical properties of the double-line pipeline. The results of the study show that the relative error between the intrinsic mode of the finite element model of the double-line pipeline and the frequency identified by the dispersion entropy variational mode decomposition (DVMD) method on the measured vibration signals is only 1.55%, which confirms the validity of the finite element model and the accuracy of the results. With increasing soil filling and increasing single-layer filling thickness, the vertical displacement of the double-line pipe gradually increases, with a maximum value of 12.24 mm. With increasing single-layer filling thickness, the rate of increase in the vertical displacement of the double-line pipe increases. With increasing soil filling, the tensile and compressive stresses on the double-line pipe increase gradually, with maximum values of 0.148 MPa and 0.568 MPa, respectively. When the number of cycles is the same, the tensile and compressive stresses of the pipe sheet increase with increasing single-layer filling thickness. When the internal water pressure is 0.6 MPa, the trends of the inner and outer circumferential deformation and tensile and compressive stresses of the left and right lines of the pipes are basically the same. The outer stresses are lower than the inner stresses, among which the tensile stresses are reduced by 25% and 20.1%, and the compressive stresses are reduced by 16% and 18.2%, respectively. Under the joint action of the earth pressure and internal water pressure, the deformation of the double-line pipeline and the compressive stress tended to decrease and then increase, and the tensile stress gradually increased. The research results provide a theoretical reference and basis for similar water supply pipeline projects.
The corrosion-protection liner (CPL) technology consists of installing flexible plastic liners with anchoring studs inside existing pipelines and subsequently filling cement mortar to the gap between the waterproof liner and the pipeline. With the excellent chemical resistance, impermeability and fast construction speed, CPL provides an economical and environmentally friendly alternative for pipeline rehabilitation without large-scale excavation. However, the seismic performance of water supply pipelines after being retrofitted with CPL has not been well studied yet. In this study, a series of full-scale quasi-static experiments were firstly conducted on ductile-iron push-on joints before and after reinforcement with CPL to investigate the nonlinear behavior of the joints under longitudinal load and transverse bending. Simplified numerical models of straight pipelines with joints before and after retrofitting in the non-uniform site were then developed in the OpenSees platform, and incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) were performed with consideration of nonlinear soil-pipeline interaction. Twenty-eight pairs of ground motions with the peak ground velocities (PGV) collectively scaled from 200 mm/s to 3000 mm/s were used as inputs. Seismic fragility curves of the pipelines before and after retrofitting were developed with respect to the optimum intensity measure, PGV. It can be seen from the experimental results that the longitudinal load and bending moment capacity of the push-on joint increased about 400% and 20% after CPL reinforcement, respectively, and the joint opening and rotation decreased about 20% and 18% after retrofitting. Numerical results show that the CPL reinforced pipelines exhibit better seismic performance and CPL effectively reduces the failure probability of segmented pipelines under earthquake ground excitations.