Re: Underground Piping

From: <cckla>
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 04:24:00 EDT


Dear Mr. Gordon Reddek,

Thank you for your informations. Anyway, is there any international piping codes which are available online, such as nfpa for fire services ?

Regards,

cckla

Dear Thanks,

The criteria for buried pipe depends on the code that has jurisdiction
over the facility you are designing. These days one seldom designs a
pipeline from first principles, you have to design to the requirements of
either a national, or international standard. As always you guys give
insufficient information to give good advice. What are we talking about
here. High pressure steel oil or gas line, plastic or a concrete sewer?
What is the diameter? two inches or six feet? For what it is worth:

  1. Steel high pressure oil and gas lines under roads with normal traffic
    are normally buried with 1200mm cover, that means from the top of the pipe
    to the road surface.
  2. If the road is to be subject to abnormal traffic, like trucks carrying
    heavy equipment, one normally buries the pipe deeper, or , the pipe runs
    in a culvert designed by civil engineers to take the load, or a slab is
    cast over the pipe to distribute the load to the ground on both sides of
    the pipe.
  3. Very large diameter low pressure lines like sewers require special
    treatment. That is the area of a specialist and you should not touch it
    if you are not qualified.

Regarding bedding material. The soil below the pipe is commonly called
bedding and that above the line is called shading. Normally it has to
surround the pipe with a layer of at least six inches (or 150mm). The
specification normally calls for clean loose sand free of stones and
extraneous material. Some specs may even nominate a sieve size that the
sand must pass through however it is not uncommon to see clauses like "the
sand may contain stones of a rounded shape and with a diameter no greater
than (say) 10mm." The details will depend on the pipe coating. If the
pipe is a steel pipe coated with a fairly soft coating the spec will have
to be stringent to protect the coating from damage by the bedding and
shading material. If the pipe is a concrete monster you would most
probably call for a loose sand bedding so that the pipe can be levelled
properly and shading with the excavated material provided the lump size
is on average no greater than (say) 100mm. What you specify depends on
the pipe you are installing.

Sure you can join pipe under roads. If you are running gas or some other
dangerous material you will not want a leak there so one tends to be more
stringent regarding joints in that area. Some Authorities may require
that the line under a road is jointless, however in general pipe codes
require the pipe in that sort of area to be thicker so that they are more
lightly stressed. Flanges are generally not allowed on buried
installations so I would expect that a full penetration butt weld which is
subject to 100% NDT would be considered to be acceptable.

Once again, you must find out what code governs the way you design your
line and you must be guided by the requirements of that code.

Gordon Reddek
Specialist Mechanical Engineer
Alcan Engineering, Level 3, 443 Queen St, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia.
Tel: +61 7 3328 6424
Fax: +61 7 3328 6990
Email: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=9xO4znmiAcM3erJmHezH6_6dMUccF1twoWYXPCuSTeVLv_CtdlTbliKUTNpyOy3SLeMEBY7zZVYdLfEsU6TyyGcb">gordon.reddek@alcan.com</a>

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02/06/2004 03:40 PM
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Dear All Specialists,

  1. What are the criterias, which determine the depth of the underground
    pipe ?
  2. What should be considered in the selection of soil for the
    underground pipe trench ?
  3. Should there be any joint under the crossing road ? If yes, what
    will be the suitable joints ?

Thanks

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