Vibration velocity control standard of buried pipeline under blast loading of adjacent tunnel

With the rapid development and construction of China’s transportation system, more and more projects are being conducted near existing buried pipelines, which will inevitably influence the safety of the pipelines. Among the safety issues related to buried pipelines, blasting during the construction of an adjacent tunnel is one of the most adverse factors for existing pipelines. To ensure the safety and normal operation of the pipelines, a method for determining the peak vibration velocity control standard for buried pipelines under blast loading is established in this study. The acceleration time-history function that acts on the rock mass under the blasting seismic wave is derived as external excitation acting on the pipeline. By using the acceleration time-history function as input and combining it with a dynamic and static analysis of the pipeline, the critical vibration velocity of pipelines under the action of blast loading can be determined by the von Mises yield criterion of the buried pipeline material. Using the Dashanpi No. 1 tunnel project in Shenzhen, China as a background, the critical velocity control standard for buried pipelines under tunnel blast loading can be set at 190 mm/s without considering either the initial defects or the corrosion conditions during the operation.