Research project
Condition Assessment of Sewer Pipes by means of Finite Element Modelling
Duration
June 2016 - April 2022Partners
Project Manager
TISCA (STW 14676)
Condition based asset management of sewer systems lacks the availability of an accurate model to calculate the ultimate load bearing capacity of old sewer pipes. An advanced FEM model will be developed taking into account full soil-pipe interaction as well as the nonlinear behaviour of a sewer due to localised cracking. The model will be verified and calibrated extensively by means of large scale loading tests on old and new sewer pipes, and loading tests in a geo-centrifuge on fully embedded sewer pipe systems.
Project Related Publications
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Soil erosion: a coupled hydro-mechanical model
22nd Engineering Mechanics Symposium (2019) -
Experimental analysis of concrete sewer pipes: load bearing capacity and sulphuric acid attack
(2019) -
Sewer systems in danger
21st Engineering Mechanics Symposium (2018) -
Numerical soil model for analysing sewer pipe-soil interactions
11th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling (2018) -
Condition assessment of sewer pipes by means of finite element modelling
20th Engineering Mechanics Symposium (2017)