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A Look into Premature Failure of Vertically Welded Pipe Piles
“The piles are falling apart at the seams.” What the engineer-diver was seeing was a premature failure of the steel pipe piles’ vertical weld seam, resulting from an accelerated corrosion process. What makes this particular mode of corrosion unique is that it aggressively attacks the weld material and can result in premature failure of the entire pile. This condition is a result of the piles’ original fabrication process and is becoming unmasked on a more frequent basis on waterfront structures. This paper will discuss the causes of this condition as well as the effect it has had on several waterfront structures in the northeast. It will also discuss the structural implications to the overall pile capacity as well as the repair efforts taken to mitigate these effects.
A Look into Premature Failure of Vertically Welded Pipe Piles
“The piles are falling apart at the seams.” What the engineer-diver was seeing was a premature failure of the steel pipe piles’ vertical weld seam, resulting from an accelerated corrosion process. What makes this particular mode of corrosion unique is that it aggressively attacks the weld material and can result in premature failure of the entire pile. This condition is a result of the piles’ original fabrication process and is becoming unmasked on a more frequent basis on waterfront structures. This paper will discuss the causes of this condition as well as the effect it has had on several waterfront structures in the northeast. It will also discuss the structural implications to the overall pile capacity as well as the repair efforts taken to mitigate these effects.
A Look into Premature Failure of Vertically Welded Pipe Piles
Teeden, Matthew L. (author) / Harris, Lukian A. (author)
15th Triennial International Conference ; 2019 ; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Ports 2019 ; 1-10
2019-09-12
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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