Objective To provide guidelines for the seismic protection of existingburied pipeline systems and for the design of new buried pipelinesystems.It's aim is the calibration of the numerical model with thecontrolled experimental results, on the behaviour of buriedpipelines under seismic loads due to wave propagation effects andon specific types of pipe segments-joints and soil conditions.Due to the uncertainties of the problem, a vulnerability basedmodel will be developed that will assess the vulnerability ofburied pipelines.The steps of the proposed methodology are as follows: Collectionof data from Public organisations and data evaluation based onliterature and qualitative criteria. Implementation ofanalytical and numerical methods for the quantification of thesoil deformations. Axial and flexural tests, material tests andinterval pressure tests will be performed. The horizontalsoil-pipe interaction and the transversal soil--pipe interactioneffects will be modelled. Using the methodology developed in theproject, several case studies will be performed to assess thevulnerability of real scale soil--pipe systems.The main deliverables of this research will be the software codefor the numerical investigation of the behaviour of the pipesystems and the recommended design practices for thevulnerability assessment of existing and new buried pipelinesystems using the software developed in this project. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwareengineering and technologycivil engineeringstructural engineeringearthquake engineeringseismic loadingnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsnumerical analysis Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040101 - Seismic hazard Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Address 5,heroon polytechniou 5 zografou campus 15773 Athens Greece See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Attcothen SA. Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 125,mihalakopoulou 11527 Athens See on map Centre Expérimental de Recherches et d'Etudes du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics (CEBTP) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Domaine de saint-paul 78470 Saint-rémy-lès-chevreuse See on map Corinth Pipeworks S.A. Greece EU contribution € 0,00 Address 10,merlin 10671 Athens See on map