Damage Investigation on Pipelines for Seismic Actions

Project: Research

Projectdetails

Description

Lifeline infrastructure, such as water mains and sewerage systems, covering our urbanised areas like a network, are most of the times, sensitive to seismic actions. This sensitivity can be in the form of extended damage during seismic events, or other collateral damages, such as what happened in Christchurch Earthquakes in 2011 in New Zealand when the sewerage system of the city was filled in with tonnes of sand due to liquefaction.

Regular damage detection is one of key solutions for operational purposes. The earthquake mitigation, however, needs large scale risk studies with expected spatial distribution of damages for varying seismic hazard levels.

Layman's description

The pipelines are buried structures. They move together with the soil during a seismic event. They are affected from ground motions. The project aims to find out the possible effects of Groningen earthquakes on pipelines of Loppersum and Slochteren.

Key findings

This project is devised for conducting an initial probe on the available data to see the possible actions that can be taken, initially on these two pilot villages, Loppersum and Slochteren, for detecting the potential relationship between the past damages and the seismic activity.
StatusGeëindigd
Effectieve start/einddatum1/06/1731/12/17

Samenwerkende partners

  • Hanze (hoofd)
  • Gemeente Loppersum
  • Gemeente Slochteren
  • Waterschap Noorderzijlvest

Keywords

  • earthquakes
  • water
  • damage