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      <title>AASHTO LRFD Design, Installation, and Standard Practice of Testing for Cured In-Place Pipe Liners</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/2533713</link>
      <description><![CDATA[State departments of transportation (DOTs) are increasingly using trenchless strategies to rehabilitate and repair aging infrastructure within urbanized areas. Performing pipe repairs to existing systems, as compared to pipe replacement, significantly reduces the construction time and maintenance of traffic operations and roadway reconstruction. This provides increased public safety and cost savings to the state DOTs. One of the most common pipe rehabilitation methods is cured in-place pipe (CIPP) liners. CIPP liners are a trenchless technology that provides a method to structurally rehabilitate existing pipes and conduits with minimal impact to the traveling public. The liner consists of a resin-impregnated material that is inserted into the existing damaged host pipe.
 
Currently, there is insufficient information available to ensure the CIPP liner possesses the properties and durability of the expected life span of this repair strategy. Pipe owners and CIPP contractors need design guide and testing standards for CIPP pipe rehabilitation repair.
 
The objectives of this research was to develop (1) an AASHTO guide for design and installation of CIPP liners for structural rehabilitation of existing pipelines and conduits including design examples to demonstrate the application of the guide and (2) an AASHTO standard practice for test methods for CIPP liner technology. The AASHTO guide for design of CIPP liners will be based on the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) method.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:26:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Guide for Design, Installation, and Testing of Cured In-Place Pipe Liners








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      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/2419748</link>
      <description><![CDATA[State departments of transportation (DOTs) are increasingly using trenchless strategies to rehabilitate and repair aging infrastructure. Performing pipe repairs to existing systems, as compared to pipe replacement, significantly reduces the construction time and maintenance of traffic operations and roadway reconstruction. With reduced construction time and roadway construction, pipe repairs can increase public safety and cost savings to the state DOTs. One of the most common pipe rehabilitation methods is cured in-place pipe (CIPP) liners. CIPP liners are a trenchless technology that provides a method to structurally rehabilitate existing pipes and conduits with minimal impact to the traveling public. The liner consists of a resin-impregnated material that is inserted into the existing damaged host pipe.

Research is needed to substantiate that CIPP liner technology provides the structural characteristics and durability to extend the service life of the asset. 

The objective of this research is to develop a guide for design, installation, and acceptance of CIPP liners for structural rehabilitation of existing pipelines and conduits and test methods for CIPP liner material.  ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:39:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Role Of Grout And GFRP Slip Liner On The Circumferential Behaviour Of Retrofitted Corroded Metal Culverts </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For any aging infrastructure, its probability of failure increases with time. There are a multitude of ways to repair and rehabilitate deteriorating pipes, and as the infrastructure system continues to age, it is important to understand and promote the use of effective and durable materials for retrofit. Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have shown to offer an attractive alternative to replace the deteriorating steel in structural corrugated metal pipes (CMPs). FRP composites have significantly improved durability characteristics compared to steel, which will reduce maintenance costs and improve lifecycle costs. Other materials such as HDPE slip liners for retrofit are in existence but their durability and improvement to load carrying capacities is under question. Past experimental work has shown GFRP to be a suitable material for developing composite action with corroded steel using a polymer grout. Longitudinal testing of corroded CMP with glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) slip liners has garnered interest of the New Mexico DOT. However, field conditions are more circumferential dominant behaviors, and no data exist on this performance measure for CMPs with GFRP slip liners. The proposed work will help evaluate the parameters obtained from circumferential bending necessary to develop design for field implementation using GFRP slip liners with different grouts for corroded culvert retrofit. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 14:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Culvert Rehabilitation using 3D Printed Diffusers (2.11)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Due to the increasing number of deteriorating and failing culverts under highways in Maine and across the nation, efforts have been underway to reduce costs by slip lining selected culverts rather than replacing them. While slip lining extends the useful life of culverts, it reduces the diameter of both the culvert and the inlet thus reducing culvert capacity. Utilizing diffuser technology can more than compensate from the reduction in capacity that results from the slip lining process. This trenchless technology of slip lining a culvert and adding a performance enhancing diffuser outlet can extend the useful life of the culvert by decades without compromising capacity. A partnership between MaineDOT and UMaine has provided a unique opportunity to utilize large-scale 3D printing technology to design and manufacture diffusers with the specific geometry required for each field installation. Whereas the use of fiberglass or reinforced concrete would require different forms for each different size diffuser, 3D printing can simply add a scaling factor to an existing diffuser design. Large-scale 3D printing technology using low-cost materials shows great promise in designing and manufacturing inexpensive and site-specific diffusers. Because the addition of a diffuser would eliminate the reduced capacity resulting from slip lining, this cost-effective trenchless technology could be used much more broadly.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:34:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Annulus Void Fill Material for Rehabilitated Sliplined Culverts </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Culvert sliplining is performed to rehabilitate deteriorated culverts. In this method, a liner with smaller dimensions than that of the host culvert is inserted into the host conduit which creates an annular void between the host and the liner.  The annular void is then grouted with an approved fill material. The current void fill operations have been inadequate to completely fill the annular space between the host and liner pipe which is rarely detected during or immediately after construction.  This research will provide a verification process that confirms complete filling of the annulus void, and it will also develop a construction and material specification for annulus void fill material and void fill operations.
                                               

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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:43:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Characterization of Modern High Toughness Steels for Fracture Propagation and Arrest Assessment- Phase II</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The development of high toughness linepipe materials is reducing the relevance of current material test methods and their application to design.  Current fracture mechanics models, plastic collapse schemes and test methods are inadequate to determine the crack arresting capacity of a particular steel alloy/linepipe component.  Furthermore, relatively inexpensive tests that are quick to perform are simply not available to accurately assess the fracture behavior of today's high strength and high toughness linepipe steels.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 14:34:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Structural Design Methodology for Spray Applied Pipe Liners in Gravity Storm Water Conveyance Conduits (TPF-5(356))</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1492196</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Spray applied pipe liners is a trenchless technology that provides a method to structurally rehabilitate concrete and metal gravity storm water conveyance conduits with minimal impact to the travelling public. The liner consists of a cementitious or resin based material that is applied in an existing host storm water conveyance conduit via a centrifugal remote applicator or by manual application. Sufficient soil support and stabilization of the host conduit is required prior to placement of the spray applied liner. The liner will provide the structural load carrying capacity without the requirement to adhere to the host conduit. No single structural design methodology for a spray applied pipe liner currently exists. Vendors either apply design equations outlined in ASTM F1216, which are for Cured In Place Pipe (CIPP), or they use a variety of design approaches and conservatively select the maximum pipe liner material thickness. 
Several state departments of transportation (DOTs) have implemented structural spray applied pipe liners despite the lack of a national design standard or with the understanding that they will be designed according to CIPP design equations. Research objectives include: (1) Recommend a design methodology for both cementitious and resin based spray applied pipe liners for structural rehabilitation of gravity storm water conveyance conduits. (2) Recommend a laboratory test method to verify the proposed structural design for conduits that have been rehabilitated using the spray applied pipe liner technology. (3) Recommend an accelerated laboratory methodology to determine the liner material durability. (4) Recommend laboratory material testing for both cementitious and resin based materials.  
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:17:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Structural Design Methodology for Spray Applied Pipe Liners in Gravity Storm Water Conveyance Conduits</title>
      <link>https://rip.trb.org/View/1456883</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This project will do the following: (1) Recommend a design methodology for both cementitious and resin based spray applied pipe liners for structural rehabilitation of gravity storm water conveyance conduits. (2) Recommend a laboratory test method to verify the proposed structural design for conduits that have been rehabilitated using the spray applied pipe liner technology.  (3) Recommend an accelerated laboratory methodology to determine the liner material durability. (4) Recommend laboratory material testing for both cementitious and resin based materials.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:11:06 GMT</pubDate>
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