THE STRESS ANALYSIS FOR THE TRENCHLESS PIPELINE REHABILITATION

摘要

Most of the pipelines will get aging year after year and then they will need to be rehabilitated. Because of the heavy traffic on the ground or the congested pipelines under the ground, the replacement of old pipes will be very difficult in the cities. The dig-free (trenchless) method is a revolutionary pipelining method which uses air pressure, hydraulic pressure or mechanical drag force to pull the flexible piping plastic sheet into the old pipe. This research proposes a stress analysis for trenchless pipeline method by the finite element model with CATIA. The material of piping sheet is combined of two different types of epoxy with the anionic harder. We do the stress analysis of the trenchless rehabilitated pipelines to decide the optimal thickness of flexible piping plastic sheet and whether the material is available or not by finite element method.