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The main aim of the paper is to investigate and validate the behavior of a pipeline in the conditions of excavator elements external interference. A number of experimental tests were conducted. Four different cases were taken into account: two geometries of indenter with and without internal pressure. Discrete model of a tested pipe was developed and validated with the actual one. Simulations were performed using ls-dyna implicit code. The results obtained from the analyses were compared with the experimental tests and showed good accuracy in terms of force characteristics obtained in all simulated cases. Moreover, stress distribution in every case was also compared and discussed.

The results of numerical simulations of some selected states of loading the pipelines within the non-linear range, with account taken of large displacements and deformations, are described in this paper. Numerical analyses resulted in sizes of deformations, strains and stresses, which further on were used to conduct comparative analysis with results effected by tests carried out on a testing stand under laboratory conditions. At points where the pipeline is supported with pipe bearers, various kinds of dents, folds, ovalisations of the pipeline’s cross-section may occur so that results of numerical simulations enable evaluation of deformation sizes in a real pipeline structure.

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