“…In order to fully understand the extent of previous studies in the area of buried pipes, a thorough literature review was conducted. The behaviour of pipes during installation (Arockiasamy et al, 2006;Kawabata et al, 2008;and Elshimi and Moore, 2013), under soil overburden pressure (Rogers, 1999;Dhar et al, 2004;Sargand et al, 2005;Chapman et al, 2007;Abolmaali and Kararam, 2010;and Gallage et al, 2012), and traffic live load has received significant attention from researchers in the literature. A lot of numerical, laboratory, and full-scale studies on the response of the pipes under these effects are available in literature.…”