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Flexible and Semi-Rigid Pipe Overview

A flexible pipe is defined as one that can deflect at least 2% without damage and includes steel, ductile iron, PVC, HDPE, and fiberglass-reinforced polymer pipes. Semi-rigid pipes can deflect between 0.1% to 3% without cracks and include bar-wrapped concrete cylinder pipes. The Matson load theory for calculating loads on pipes in narrow trenches assumes there is no cohesion between the trench fill and sides and that soil friction is directly proportional to active horizontal pressure.

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Flexible and Semi-Rigid Pipe Overview

A flexible pipe is defined as one that can deflect at least 2% without damage and includes steel, ductile iron, PVC, HDPE, and fiberglass-reinforced polymer pipes. Semi-rigid pipes can deflect between 0.1% to 3% without cracks and include bar-wrapped concrete cylinder pipes. The Matson load theory for calculating loads on pipes in narrow trenches assumes there is no cohesion between the trench fill and sides and that soil friction is directly proportional to active horizontal pressure.

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A flexible pipe has been defined as one that will deflect at

least 2% without structures distresses.


Flexible includes: steel, ductile iron, thermoplastics such as
Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and High Density Polyethylene
(HDPE), thermosetting plastics such as fiberglassreinforced polymer (FRP), bar-wrapped concrete cylinder
pipe
Semi-rigid pipes
Some pipe material exhibit characteristics of both rigid and flexible pipes, primarily
controlled by their diameters, are referred as Semi-rigid pipes. Semi-rigid pipes deflect
between 0.1% to 3% without causing harmful or potentially harmful cracks. For example,
bar-wrapped concrete cylinder.

Figure 2-6: Arching effect in underground conduits


2.4.2 Matson load theory (Narrow trench)
Assumptions:
The cohesion, if any, between the trench fill and the soil in the trench sides is ignored
because of its variable and uncertain value, depending on the moisture condition.
(Due to (1) considerable time would have to elapse before cohesion could develop
and (2) the assumption of no cohesion would yield the maximum load on the pipe).
The soil density and the frictional properties are assumed to remain constant over
the depth, and the soil friction is assumed to vary in direct proportion to the active
horizontal pressure of the fill against the trench faces

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