IP Library Granted Patent US 9,869,410
Granted Patent B2
US 9,869,410 · App. 15/031,578 · Granted Jan 16, 2018

Buckling pattern steel pipe

Inventors: Nobuhiro Hasegawa (Tokyo, JP); Toshio Imai (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Nagamine (Tokyo, JP); Hayato Nakazono (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: JFE ENGINEERING CORPORATION
F16L9/02F16L57/02
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,869,410
App. No.
15/031,578
Granted
Jan 16, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A buckling pattern steel pipe for being buried in ground in which flexure occurs includes: a steel pipe straight portion; and a buckling pattern portion. The buckling pattern portion is in a shape expressed by a sine wave determined based on: a buckling wavelength which is 2.05 to 4.32 times a compression local buckling half wavelength expressed by 1.72√(r·T); and a crest height expressed by a value 8.00 to 16.25 times a pipe thickness of the steel pipe straight pipe portion, and the buckling pattern portion absorbs bending compression deformation caused by faulting of the ground and axial compression deformation caused by the flexure so as to avoid deformation of the steel pipe straight pipe portion, where r is a pipe thickness center radius of the steel pipe straight pipe portion and T is the pipe thickness of the steel pipe straight pipe portion.

Claims (12)

1. A buckling pattern steel pipe for being buried in ground in which flexure occurs, comprising:

a steel pipe straight portion; and

a buckling pattern portion,

wherein the buckling pattern portion is in a shape expressed by a partial sine wave determined based on: a buckling wavelength that is 2.05 to 4.32 times a compression local buckling half wavelength expressed by 1.72*√{square root over (r*T)} and a crest height that is 8.00 to 16.25 times a pipe thickness of the steel pipe straight pipe portion, and

the buckling pattern portion absorbs bending compression deformation caused by faulting of the ground and axial compression deformation caused by the flexure so as to avoid deformation of the steel pipe straight pipe portion,

where r is a pipe thickness center radius of the steel pipe straight pipe portion and T is the pipe thickness of the steel pipe straight pipe portion.

2. The buckling pattern steel pipe according to claim 1 ,

wherein the buckling pattern portions are disposed at an interval in an axial direction of the buckling pattern steel pipe.

3. The buckling pattern steel pipe according to claim 2 ,

wherein the buckling pattern portions are disposed on opposite sides of a fault plane at a predetermined interval.

4. The buckling pattern steel pipe according to claim 1 ,

wherein the partial sine wave is half wavelength of a sine wave.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 25, 2016
From: HASEGAWA, NOBUHIRO; IMAI, TOSHIO; NAGAMINE, HIROSHI; NAKAZONO, HAYATO
To: JFE ENGINEERING CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 038372/0347 →
Continuity (1)
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