Abstract
In Japan, since various kinds of small-sized pipes are buried in pavement under various conditions at shallow depth, it is necessory to establish a practical method to evaluate stress and deformation of the buried pipes induced by vehecle load. A simplified method to evaluate deflection and circumferential stress of small-sized buried pipe induced by wheel loads is proposed in this paper. The calcurated results were compared to the experimental results, finding the calcurated values gave a satisfactory agreement with measured values, which were obtained by field experiments.
