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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 18
DEVELOPMENTS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper I.1

Finite Element Modelling of Sewer Linings

M.N. Pavlovic+, S. Arnaout* and D. Hitchings#

+Department of Civil Engineering
#Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, England
*Burns & McDonnell International, United States of America

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M.N. Pavlovic, S. Arnaout, D. Hitchings, "Finite Element Modelling of Sewer Linings", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Developments in Structural Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 1-11, 1993. doi:10.4203/ccp.18.1.1
Abstract
In the course of renovating egg-shaped sewer linings comparisons of stress/strain and deflection levels with their permissible values are complicated not only by their shape but, also, by their considerably variable material properties and the choice of intermediate restraint set-ups. Thus, the present attempt to model numerically two glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) linings (one of them segmental) and one glass-reinforced cement (GRC) lining (segmental) by using actual material data and structural test results carried out under uniform pressure aims at the validation of a suitable finite-element model as a design tool capable of encompassing a wide range of parameters. These include arbitrary lining geometries, material properties, boundary restraint set-ups, and different load configurations resulting from the way in which the grouting pressure is applied.

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