Analysis of the stressed state in equal-diameter T-joints of pipelines. Part 1. Action of internal pressure and bending moments in the plane of a T-joint

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 645-650
Author(s):  
S. V. Kobel’skii ◽  
V. I. Kravchenko ◽  
A. L. Kvitka ◽  
P. P. Voroshko ◽  
B. Pospishil
2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-261
Author(s):  
S. V. Kobel’skii ◽  
V. I. Kravchenko ◽  
A. L. Kvitka ◽  
P. P. Voroshko ◽  
I. A. Klimenko ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Heng Peng ◽  
Yinghua Liu

Abstract In this paper, the Stress Compensation Method (SCM) adopting an elastic-perfectly-plastic (EPP) material is further extended to account for limited kinematic hardening (KH) material model based on the extended Melan's static shakedown theorem using a two-surface model defined by two hardening parameters, namely the initial yield strength and the ultimate yield strength. Numerical analysis of a cylindrical pipe is performed to validate the outcomes of the extended SCM. The results agree well with ones from literature. Then the extended SCM is applied to the shakedown and limit analysis of KH piping elbows subjected to internal pressure and cyclic bending moments. Various loading combinations are investigated to generate the shakedown limit and the plastic limit load interaction curves. The effects of material hardening, elbow angle and loading conditions on the shakedown limit and the plastic limit load interaction curves are presented and analysed. The present method is incorporated in the commercial finite element simulation software and can be considered as a general computational tool for shakedown analysis of KH engineering structures. The obtained results provide a useful information for the structural design and integrity assessment of practical piping elbows.


Author(s):  
Masahide Katsuo ◽  
Toshiyuki Sawa ◽  
Yuki Kikuchi

This study deals with the stress analysis and the estimation of sealing performance of the pipe flange connections with an adhesive under an internal pressure and an external bending moment are analyzed by using the 3-dimensional elastic finite element method (FEM). The experiment of the leakage test of the connections with an adhesive was carried out by applying the above loads to the connections. From the FEM analysis, the following results were obtained; (1) when an internal pressure is applied to the flange connections, the compressive stress at the interface between a flange and an adhesive increases proportionally from the inner side of the interface to outside, and (2) when an internal pressure and a bending moment apply to the flange connections, the stress distribution at the half part of the interface increases as the external bending moments increase and also Young’s modulus of the adhesive increases. From the experiments, the following results were obtained: (1) sealing performance of the pipe flange connections with an adhesive under an internal pressure and an external bending moment increases as the flange thickness and an initial clamping force of bolts increases and (2) the sealing performances were not found between the connections with an adhesive and that with a gasket combining an adhesive. Furthermore, the numerical results are in fairly good agreement with the experimental results.


Author(s):  
Juntao Bao ◽  
Jianming Gong ◽  
Shantung Tu ◽  
Yuesheng Li ◽  
Yanfei Qiu

Tapered pipe used in the main steam pipelines, which operated at high temperature and high pressure, including concentric tapered pipe and eccentric tapered pipe, they are sources of weakness in the piping system serviced in the power stations and the chemical plants, and creep is the significant reason that caused their failure. Creep damage analyses are carried out for these two kinds of tapered pipes by introducing user subroutine based on the modified Karchanov-Rabotnov constitutive equations into finite element program ABAQUS, then the effects of bending moments and internal pressure to the serviced life of the components are investigated by comparing four group of calculated results under different loads, the results indicated that eccentric tapered pipe is more inclinable to broken than concentric tapered pipe under the same conditions, so it is not recommended to use the eccentric tapered pipe in the piping system. The bending moments will accelerate the components’ failure, so it is necessary to take some advantages to reduce the bending moments near the tapered pipe, on the other hand, the life of the tapered pipe will decrease quickly with the internal pressure increasing, so the control of the operated pressure is important to ensure the serviced life of the pipelines.


Author(s):  
Koji Sato ◽  
Toshiyuki Sawa ◽  
Riichi Morimoto ◽  
Takashi Kobayashi

In designing of pipe flange connections with gaskets, it is important to examine the mechanical characteristics of the connections subjected to external bending moments due to earthquake such as the changes in hub stress, axial bolt forces and the contact gasket stress distribution which governs the sealing performance. One of the authors developed the PTFE blended gaskets and the authors examined the mechanical characteristics of the connections with the PTFE blended gaskets under internal pressure. However, no research was done to examine the mechanical characteristics of the connections with the newly developed PTFE blended gasket subjected to external bending moment due to earthquake. The objectives of the present study are to examine the mechanical characteristics of the connection with PTFE blended gasket subjected to external bending moment and internal pressure and to discuss the difference in the load order to the connections between the internal pressure and the external bending moments. The changes in the hub stress, the axial bolt force and the contact gasket stress distribution of the connection are analyzed using FEM. Using the obtained the gasket stress distribution and the fundamental data between the gasket stress and the leak rate for a smaller test gasket, the leak rate of the connection with the gasket is predicted under external bending moment and internal pressure. In the FEM calculations, the effects of the nominal diameter of pipe flanges on the mechanical characteristics are shown. In the experiments, ASME class 300 4 inch flange connection with 2m pipes at both sides is used and the test gasket is chosen as No.GF300 made by Nippon Valqua Industries, ltd. Four point bending moment is applied to the connection. The FEM results of the hub stress and the axial bolt forces are in a fairly good agreement with the experimental results. In addition, the FEM results of the leak rate are fairly coincided with the measured results.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hany F. Abdalla ◽  
Mohammad M. Megahed ◽  
Maher Y. A. Younan

A simplified technique for determining the shakedown limit load for a long radius 90 deg pipe bend was previously developed (Abdalla, H. F., et al., 2006, “Determination of Shakedown Limit Load for a 90 Degree Pipe Bend Using a Simplified Technique,” ASME J. Pressure Vessel Technol., 128, pp. 618–624; Abdalla, H. F., et al., 2007, “Shakedown Limits of a 90-Degree Pipe Bend Using Small and Large Displacement Formulations,” ASME J. Pressure Vessel Technol., 129, pp. 287–295). The simplified technique utilizes the finite element (FE) method and employs the small displacement formulation to determine the shakedown limit load (moment) without performing lengthy time consuming full cyclic loading finite element simulations or utilizing conventional iterative elastic techniques. The shakedown limit load is determined through the calculation of residual stresses developed within the pipe bend structure. In the current paper, a parametric study is conducted through applying the simplified technique on three scheduled pipe bends, namely, nominal pipe size (NPS) 10 in. Sch. 20, NPS 10 in. Sch. 40 STD, and NPS 10 in. Sch. 80. Two material models are assigned, namely, an elastic perfectly plastic (EPP) material and an idealized elastic-linear strain hardening material obeying Ziegler’s linear kinematic hardening (KH) rule. This type of material model is termed in the current study as the KH-material. The pipe bends are subjected to a spectrum of steady internal pressure magnitudes and cyclic bending moments. The cyclic bending includes three different loading patterns, namely, in-plane closing, in-plane opening, and out-of-plane bending moment loadings of the pipe bends. The shakedown limit moments outputted by the simplified technique are used to generate shakedown diagrams of the scheduled pipe bends for the spectrum of steady internal pressure magnitudes. A comparison between the generated shakedown diagrams for the pipe bends employing the EPP- and the KH-materials is presented. Relatively higher shakedown limit moments were recorded for the pipe bends employing the KH-material at the medium to high internal pressure magnitudes.


2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hany F. Abdalla ◽  
Maher Y. A. Younan ◽  
Mohammad M. Megahed

A simplified technique for determining the lower bound shakedown limit load of a structure, employing an elastic–perfectly plastic (EPP) material model, was previously developed and successfully applied to a long radius 90 deg pipe bend (Abdalla et al., 2006, “Determination of Shakedown Limit Load for a 90 Degree Pipe Bend Using a Simplified Technique,” ASME J. Pressure Vessel Technol., 128, pp. 618–624). The pipe bend is subjected to steady internal pressure magnitudes and cyclic bending moments. The cyclic bending includes three different loading patterns, namely, in-plane closing, in-plane opening, and out-of-plane bending moment loadings. The simplified technique utilizes the finite element (FE) method and employs a small displacement formulation to determine the shakedown limit load without performing lengthy time consuming full elastic-plastic (ELPL) cyclic loading FE simulations or conventional iterative elastic techniques. In the present research, the simplified technique is further modified to handle structures employing an elastic-linear strain hardening material model following Ziegler’s linear kinematic hardening (KH) rule. The shakedown limit load is determined through the calculation of residual stresses developed within the pipe bend structure accounting for the back stresses, determined from the KH shift tensor, responsible for the rigid translation of the yield surface. The outcomes of the simplified technique showed an excellent correlation with the results of full ELPL cyclic loading FE simulations. The shakedown limit moments output by the simplified technique are utilized to generate shakedown diagrams (Bree diagrams) of the pipe bend for a spectrum of steady internal pressure magnitudes. The generated Bree diagrams are compared with the ones previously generated employing the EPP material model. These indicated relatively conservative shakedown limit moments compared with the ones employing the KH rule.


2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 549-554
Author(s):  
V. N. Skopinskii ◽  
N. A. Berkov ◽  
N. V. Vozhova ◽  
A. B. Smetankin

2020 ◽  
Vol 242 ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Ramil BAKTIZIN ◽  
Rail ZARIPOV ◽  
Gennadii KOROBKOV ◽  
Radik MASALIMOV

Article justifies accounting for internal pressure effect in the pipeline, causing additional bending of the pipeline. According to some scientists, there is an erroneously used concept of the equivalent longitudinal axial force (ELAF) Sx, which depends on working pressure, temperature stresses, and joint deformations of pipelines with various types of soils. However, authors of the article use ELAF Sx concept at construction of mathematical model of stress-strain state (SSS) for complex section of the trunk pipeline, and also reveal it when analyzing the results of calculating the durability and stability of the pipeline. Analysis of SSS for calculated section of the pipeline was carried out for two statements of the problem for different values of operation parameters. In the first statement, effect of internal pressure causing bending of the pipeline is taken into account, and in the second it is neglected. It is shown that due to effect of ELAF Sx at p0 = 9.0 MPa, Dt = 29 °C extreme value of bend increases by 54 %, extreme values of bending stresses from span bending moment increase by 74 %, and extreme value of bending stresses from support bending moment double with regard to corresponding SSS characteristics of the pipeline. In case of neglecting the internal pressure effect causing additional bending of the pipeline (second statement of the problem), error in calculating the extreme value of bend is 35 %, extreme value of bending stresses from span bending moments is 44 %, and extreme value of bending stresses from support bending moments is 95 %.


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