Gurtin-Type Quasi-Variational Principle of Buried Pipelines Dynamics

Because earthquakes may cause severe damage to buried pipelines, it is important to study dynamic response of buried pipelines. For dynamic response problem of buried pipelines, variational method is the suitable method. In the paper, Gurtin-type quasi-variational principle of buried pipelines dynamics is established by convolutional variational integral method, which is theoretical foundation of finite element method for solving buried pipelines dynamics problems.