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How could a water pipe (pressurized and buried) impact its valve chamber how to calculate stresses apply on walls due to pipeline's diameter & pressure?

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Question added by Mohamed Mostafa , Senior Infrastructure Engineer , General Directorate Of Water In Riyadh - MOWE
Date Posted: 2015/05/20
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Mohamed Mostafa
by Mohamed Mostafa , Senior Infrastructure Engineer , General Directorate Of Water In Riyadh - MOWE

Hi Eng. Wessam,

 

Please explain from where you got these equation, and if this stress is on the pipe wall thickness or the valve chamber walls.

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Wessam Ali
by Wessam Ali , MEP Project Manager , British Petroleum

stress on pipe walls = (pressure X diameter) / (2 X wall thickness)

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