This document discusses construction methods for geopipes, including subgrade preparation, connections, placement, and backfilling operations. Subgrade preparation involves compacting soil to 95% standard proctor and overexcavating trenches. Connections for geopipes include butt welding, electric socket welding, screw connections, and sleeve couplings. Placement of pipes involves considerations for ambient temperature. Backfilling requires special care in primary backfill beneath the pipe to prevent voids, and secondary backfill provides support above the pipe.
This document discusses construction methods for geopipes, including subgrade preparation, connections, placement, and backfilling operations. Subgrade preparation involves compacting soil to 95% standard proctor and overexcavating trenches. Connections for geopipes include butt welding, electric socket welding, screw connections, and sleeve couplings. Placement of pipes involves considerations for ambient temperature. Backfilling requires special care in primary backfill beneath the pipe to prevent voids, and secondary backfill provides support above the pipe.
This document discusses construction methods for geopipes, including subgrade preparation, connections, placement, and backfilling operations. Subgrade preparation involves compacting soil to 95% standard proctor and overexcavating trenches. Connections for geopipes include butt welding, electric socket welding, screw connections, and sleeve couplings. Placement of pipes involves considerations for ambient temperature. Backfilling requires special care in primary backfill beneath the pipe to prevent voids, and secondary backfill provides support above the pipe.
This document discusses construction methods for geopipes, including subgrade preparation, connections, placement, and backfilling operations. Subgrade preparation involves compacting soil to 95% standard proctor and overexcavating trenches. Connections for geopipes include butt welding, electric socket welding, screw connections, and sleeve couplings. Placement of pipes involves considerations for ambient temperature. Backfilling requires special care in primary backfill beneath the pipe to prevent voids, and secondary backfill provides support above the pipe.
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CE 133
CONSTRUCTION METHODS Construction Methods These are the Construction Methods used in Geopipes:
1. Subgrade Preparation
2. Connections
3. Placement
4. Backfilling Operations 1. SUBGRADE PREPARATION Plastic Pipe is usually placed in a prepared trench or within other prepared subgrade materials. If soil is the subgrade, as it usually is, the compaction should be 95% of Standard Proctor compaction so as to minimize the deformation of the pipe in service. Pipe trenches are often overexcavated so that bedding soil of cohesionless nature can bring the grade up to the plan elevation. Sufficient trench length should be available such that pipe laying can continue in a uniform manner. Decisions related to such factors (stability and sloughing) will depend greatly on: 1. soil type 2. depth of trench . If the pipe is to be placed directly on a geomembrane ( as in the leachate system), the full depth drainage stone should be placed before pipe installation. Small excavations of at least the diameter of the pipe are then made, and then the pipe is placed in these shallow excavations. Underground Installation Methods for Plastic Pipes by various organizations: 1. ASTM D2774 Underground Installation of Thermoplastic Pressure Piping 2. ASTM F481 Standard Practice for Installation of Thermoplastic Pipe and Fittings 3. AWWA M23 PVC Pipe Design and Installation 4. PPI TR8 Installation Procedures for Polyethelyne Plastic Pipe 5. PPI TR31 Underground Installation of Polyolefin Piping 2. CONNECTIONS These are the 4 methods in Geopipe End Connections
1. Butt welding method is used for
thick-walled HDPE pipe and is exactly the same as that used in the natural gas pipe industry (ASTM D2657) 2. Electric-socket welding is similar to butt welding. In contrast, PVC pipe is usually chemically seamed using a solvent on the pipe ends before pressure joining them together (ASTMD2672) 3. Screw connection - can only be made if the plastic pipe thickness is adequate to form or machine the pipe ends to accept one another. To make a tight connection, gaskets are sometimes used, which reside in slotted seats of the thicker section of the connection. To make a leak-free connection it is possible to extrusion seam the outside separation for smaller diameter pipe and the inside for very large diameter pipe. 4. Sleeve couplings - are used to connect the ends of all profiled wall pipe and some solid wall pipe. Each of these couplings must be mated to the type of pipe for which they are designed. 4. PLACEMENT
The placement of plastic pipe in a prepared
trench, after it has been seamed into an essentially continuous length, is very rapid and straightforward. The major considerations that must be addressed is ambient temperature. Plastic pipe will expand and contract in direct relationship to the temperature and the pipe’s material coefficient of linear expansion or contraction. 5. BACKFILLING OPERATIONS 1. Primary backfill -is important and requires special care in its placement in the haunch areas beneath the pipe
-usually granular soil with adequate fines to provide
good placement stability
- if soil is not placed beneath the pipe, there will be
voids, and when the pipes will be loaded, the voids will cause the pipe to deform
2. secondary backfill - provides support and load transfer to the top of the pipe and support for the subsequent backing operations - the soil type is often one grade class lower than the primary backfill - the thickness of this layer should be at least half of the diameter of the pipe itself and preferably equal to the diameter -can be mechanized but never on a lift thickness less than 300mm
