Evaluation of the Solutions for Calculating Misalignment-Induced Stress Concentration Factor at Girth Welds in Pipelines

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Hui Zhang ◽  
Matthew Dore ◽  
Jazeel Chukkan
Keyword(s):  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentration Factor ◽  
Concentration Factor ◽  
Induced Stress ◽  
Girth Welds

Evaluation of the Solutions for Calculating Misalignment-Induced Stress Concentration Factor at Girth Welds in Pipelines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Hui Zhang ◽  
Matthew Dore ◽  
Jazeel R. Chukkan
Keyword(s):  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentration Factor ◽  
Concentration Factor ◽  
Fatigue Crack Initiation ◽  
Axial Loading ◽  
Induced Stress ◽  
Weld Toe ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Stress Concentration Factors ◽  
Girth Welds

Abstract Pipelines are commonly joined by girth welds. A centreline offset at a girth weld would inevitably be introduced due to either a difference in wall thickness of the pipes at each side of the weld or due to misalignment. An additional bending stress can result when the pipeline containing the girth weld is subjected to axial loading. This partly contributes to fatigue crack initiation from the weld toe. Therefore, the misalignment-induced stress concentration factor, Km, must be considered in fatigue design of girth welded pipelines. There are several solutions available to calculate Km including BS 7910, DNVGL-RP-C203 and Connelly and Zettlemoyer. In some cases, the difference in the stress concentration factors calculated using these solutions is significant. This paper reviews these and other solutions and verifies them by finite element results and experimental data obtained through strain gauge measurements. Based on the study, the most appropriate Km solution is recommended.

Statistical Approach of Stress Concentration Factor (SCF) Within Pipeline Girth Welds

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre-Louis Auvret ◽  
Antonio Carlucci ◽  
Jun Li ◽  
Kamel MCirdi
Keyword(s):  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentration Factor ◽  
Concentration Factor ◽  
Material Behavior ◽  
Stress Concentrations ◽  
Alignment Procedure ◽  
Fabrication Tolerances ◽  
Girth Welds ◽  
Pipe Size

Engineering design must take care of local peaks within stress field, in order to provide relevant forecast of material behavior. Within pipeline girth welds, pipe misalignment is an ordinary cause of significant stress concentrations. The matching of pipe ends depends of the quality of alignment procedure but it is also much influenced by pipe fabrication tolerances. In general, misalignment is estimated considering the maximal and minimal values of each pipe size according to pipe fabrication tolerances. But, in practice, the probability to get a such case is very low. This paper describes how to improve the calculation of stress concentration factor (SCF) through a statistical analysis of pipe dimensions. The use of actual pipe measurements is not necessary even if it provides better SCF estimation. Indeed the distribution of pipe size can be estimated through the fabrication tolerances which require acceptable capacities of the manufacturing system.

scholarly journals A novel thread connection structure of slimehole drilling tool in ultra-deep natural gas well

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 003685042110264
Author(s):  
Zhang Ying ◽  
Lian Zhanghua ◽  
Gao Anqi ◽  
Yang Kun
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentration Factor ◽  
Concentration Factor ◽  
Sensitivity Coefficient ◽  
Notch Sensitivity ◽  
Sensitivity Factor ◽  
Drilling Tool ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Thread Connection

The thread connection’s root fillet radius of 0.038″ size is the greatest weakness of the API NC type joints and thread. During the slimehole drilling, especially in the deep and ultra-deep gas well, its stress concentration factor and notch sensitivity factor are very high A novel thread connection design (TM) of a drilling tool is proposed to decrease the fatigue failure of the slimehole drilling tool in the deep and the ultra-deep gas well in the Tarim oilfield China. The novelty in the TM thread structure is, reducing the threads per inch, extending the distance from the last engaged thread to the external shoulder of the pin and adding three threads to the conventional connection. The novel thread connection will improve the slimehole drilling tool’s anti-fatigue life due to its improved elasticity and rigidity. Furthermore, the TM can transfer the maximum stress at the connection root to the loaded surface, which can effectively lower the fatigue notch’s sensitivity coefficient. In this paper, the finite element method (FEM) is applied to carry out the detailed comparative analysis of the TM with existing thread connection NC38, TX60 and TH90. The TM has the lowest stress concentration factor and fatigue notch sensitivity coefficient, so its anti-fatigue life is the highest. In addition, TM is manufactured and is tested at Tarim oilfield in China.

Stress Concentration of Periodic Collinear Square Holes in an Infinite Plate in Tension

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Changqing Miao ◽  
Yintao Wei ◽  
Xiangqiao Yan
Keyword(s):  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentration Factor ◽  
Concentration Factor ◽  
Infinite Plate ◽  
Numerical Approach ◽  
Numerical Examples ◽  
Calculated Stress ◽  
Bueckner’S Principle

A numerical approach for the stress concentration of periodic collinear holes in an infinite plate in tension is presented. It involves the fictitious stress method and a generalization of Bueckner's principle. Numerical examples are concluded to show that the numerical approach is very efficient and accurate for analyzing the stress concentration of periodic collinear holes in an infinite plate in tension. The stress concentration of periodic collinear square holes in an infinite plate in tension is studied in detail by using the numerical approach. The calculated stress concentration factor is proven to be accurate.

Fracture of Inoculated Iron Under Biaxial Stresses

1955 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-174
Author(s):  
I. Cornet ◽  
R. C. Grassi
Keyword(s):  
Cast Iron ◽  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentration Factor ◽  
Concentration Factor ◽  
Gray Cast Iron ◽  
Energy Criterion ◽  
Gray Cast ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Thin Wall ◽  
As Stress

Abstract Data are presented on the fracture of inoculated-iron thin-wall tubes, investigated under various ratios of axial to tangential stress, ranging from pure tension to pure compression. These data are consistent with published data on gray cast iron. It may be assumed that in cast-iron, plates of friable graphite in an iron matrix, act like solid iron with respect to compressive stresses, but they act as stress-concentrating cavities with respect to tensile stresses. This gives a stress-concentration factor, which is easily determined experimentally. Stress-concentration factors obtained were 3.2–3.3 for gray cast iron, and 2.4–2.5 for inoculated cast iron. A distortion-energy criterion for fracture, modified by this stress-concentration factor, is consistent with the experimental data. It appears that the concentration of the dispersed graphite, and the shape and size of this brittle phase, affect the fracture strength under combined stresses.

The Flow and Fracture of a Brittle Material

1950 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-248
Author(s):  
L. F. Coffin
Keyword(s):  
Cast Iron ◽  
Stress Concentration ◽  
Stress Concentration Factor ◽  
Concentration Factor ◽  
Gray Cast Iron ◽  
Gray Cast ◽  
Residual Tensile Stress ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Combined Stress ◽  
Plastic Stress

Abstract The mechanism of flow and fracture of a gray cast iron can be understood if one considers the microstructure to consist of a ductile structure with a random dispersion of cracks due to the graphite flakes following the concept of Fisher. A notch effective stress can be calculated for a critically situated crack by a knowledge of the external stresses, a plastic stress-concentration factor of 3, and a residual tensile stress at the sharp edge of the crack, based upon either the “maximum-shear” theory or the “distortion-energy” theory. This allows the formulation of generalized plastic stress-strain relationships and renders gray cast iron applicable to the many known solutions for plastic flow of ductile metals. Fracture in the region of tension-tension and tension-compression can be evaluated by a similar analysis, using the same stress-concentration factor and the same residual stress. A combined stress-testing program is described wherein thin-walled cast-iron tubes are subjected to two-dimensional states of combined stress covering the complete two-dimensional field.

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