Approximate Elastic-Plastic Analysis of Intersecting Equal Diameter Cylindrical Shells

1981 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
D. P. Updike

Design of connections of pipes and pressure vessels on the basis of a calculated maximum elastic stress often proves to be too conservative in the case of ductile materials. Elastic-plastic analysis by the finite element method proves to be too costly. This paper presents an alternative method which reduces the calculations to those of a rotationally symmetric shell subjected to axisymmetric loading. Using this approach approximate elastic-plastic deformations on the meridian passing through the crotch of a tee branch connection of cylindrical shells of equal diameter and thickness are determined. The method is limited to cases of the normal intersection of very thin shells of identical diameter, thickness, and material and to internal pressure loading. Numerical results for the intersection of two shells of R/t equal to 100 are given for an elastic-perfectly plastic material satisfying the von Mises yield condition.

Author(s):  
Jun Shen ◽  
Heng Peng ◽  
Liping Wan ◽  
Yanfang Tang ◽  
Yinghua Liu

In the past, shakedown evaluation was usually based on the elastic method that the sum of the primary and secondary stress should be limited to 3Sm or the simplified elastic-plastic analysis method. The elastic method is just an approximate analysis, and the rigorous evaluation of shakedown normally requires an elastic-plastic analysis. In this paper, using an elastic perfectly plastic material model, the shakedown analysis was performed by a series of elastic-plastic analyses. Taking a shell with a nozzle subjected to parameterized temperature loads as an example, the impact of temperature change on the shakedown load was discussed and the shakedown loads of this structure at different temperature change rates were also obtained. This study can provide helpful references for engineering design.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
David J. Unger

AbstractA finite element analysis indicates a good correlation between the Dugdale plastic strip model and a linear elastic/perfectly plastic material under plane stress loading conditions for a flow theory of plasticity based on the Tresca yield condition. A similar analysis under the von Mises yield condition reveals no plastic strip formation.


1961 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Eason

In this paper the problem of the elastic, plastic bending of a circular plate which is simply supported at its edge and carries a constant load over a central circular area is considered. The von Mises yield condition and the associated flow rule are assumed and the material of the plate is assumed to be nonhardening, elastic, perfectly plastic, and compressible. Stress fields are obtained in all cases and a velocity field is presented for the case of point loading. Some numerical results are given comparing the results obtained here with those obtained when the Tresca yield condition is assumed.


1960 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. G. Landau ◽  
E. E. Zwicky

Equations are given for the stress rates in solid cylinders subject to transient temperature distributions, based on the assumption of an elastic, perfectly plastic material obeying a von Mises temperature-dependent yield condition. A numerical procedure for integrating the equations is developed and applied to a temperature distribution approximating a phase transformation and to a quenched cylinder. The effect of various factors on the residual stresses is noted.


2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 407-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
P J Budden ◽  
Y Lei

Limit loads for a thick-walled cylinder with an internal or external fully circumferential surface crack under pure axial load are derived on the basis of the von Mises yield criterion. The solutions reproduce the existing thin-walled solution when the ratio between the cylinder wall thickness and the inside radius tends to zero. The solutions are compared with published finite element limit load results for an elastic–perfectly plastic material. The comparison shows that the theoretical solutions are conservative and very close to the finite element data.


1983 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Crossland

ABSTRACTDiscussion of the proposed extension of the ASME pressure vessel code to cover operating pressures up to 1.4 GPa (200000 lbf/in2 ) has generated the proposal that two criteria should be used, of which one would be the collapse or ballooning pressure not the bursting pressure. The present paper examines this proposal in relation to extensive data on the collapse and bursting of thick-walled vessels available to the author.It is concluded that the collapse pressure is only readily calculable for materials which approach the behaviour of an elastic/perfectly plastic material. It also appears for materials with significant strain hardening characteristics, such as mild steel, that the collapse pressure considerably underestimates the bursting pressure, whereas for a material which behaves as an elastic/perfectly plastic material the collapse pressure is nearly coincident with the bursting pressure. Consequently if the collapse pressure was adopted and if the factor of safety against collapse was adequate for one material it might be more or less than adequate for another material, which would appear to be unacceptable.


2005 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Unger

A statically admissible solution for a perfectly plastic material in plane stress is presented for the mode I crack problem. The yield condition employed is an alternative type first proposed by von Mises in order to approximate his original yield condition for plane stress while eliminating most of the elliptic region as pertaining to partial differential equations. This yield condition is composed of two intersecting parabolas rather than a single ellipse in the principal stress space. The attributes of this particular solution of the mode I problem over that previously obtained are that it contains neither stress discontinuities nor compressive stresses anywhere in the field.


2012 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorinamaria Carka ◽  
Robert M. McMeeking ◽  
Chad M. Landis

In this technical brief, we compute the J-integral near a crack-tip in an elastic-perfectly-plastic material. Finite deformation is accounted for, and the apparent discrepancies between the prior results of the authors are resolved.


1968 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Hung Mok

It is shown that initial and boundary-value problems involving high-speed elastic-plastic deformation with spherical symmetry can be solved using a finite-difference numerical technique. Numerical solutions for the dynamic expansion of a spherical cavity under a constant pressure are presented to demonstrate the nature and capability of the numerical scheme. While the solution for an elastic material agrees closely with the exact one, the solution for an elastic, perfectly plastic material also receives support from Green’s analytic predictions concerning the motion of the elastic-plastic boundary. At large times, the asymptotic solution of the dynamic elastic-plastic problem is different from the quasi-static solution. This result indicates that the concept of quasi-static approximation may not hold in dynamic plasticity. A nonlinear dependence of the plastic solution on the boundary condition is also observed.


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