Seismic Analysis of Connections of Buried Continuous Pipelines

Figure 29

Maximum strain of Y-shaped connection under different parameters: (a) Case Y-1, site class II; (b) Case Y-2, 30° branch angle; (c) Case Y-3, 0.2191 m pipe diameter; (d) Case Y-4, 30° incident angle.

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