Low-Cycle Fatigue and Ratcheting Responses of Elbow Piping Components

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hassan ◽  
M. Rahman ◽  
S. Bari
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Model ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Damage Accumulation ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Cracks ◽  
Constitutive Models ◽  
Code Design ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Damage Accumulation ◽  
Piping Systems

The objective of this study was to investigate low-cycle fatigue and ratcheting responses of elbows through experimental and analytical studies. Low-cycle fatigue and ratcheting damage accumulation in piping components may occur under repeated reversals of loading induced by earthquake and/or thermomechanical operation. Ratcheting and fatigue damage accumulation can cause failure of piping systems through fatigue cracks or plastic buckling. However, the ratcheting damage induced failures are yet to be understood clearly; consequently, ASME Code design provisions against ratcheting failure continue to be a controversial issue over the last two decades. A systematic set of piping component experimental responses involving ratcheting and a computational tool to simulate these responses will be essential to rationally address the issue. Development of a constitutive model for simulating component ratcheting responses remains to be a challenging problem. In order to develop an experimentally validated constitutive model, a set of elbow experiments was conducted. The loading prescribed in the experiments involved displacement-controlled or force-controlled in-plane cyclic bending with or without internal pressure. Force, displacement, internal pressure, elbow diameter change, and strains at four locations of the elbow specimens were recorded. This article presents and discusses the results from the experimental study. A sister article evaluates seven different constitutive models against simulating these elbow ratcheting and fatigue responses.

Latest Development in Physics-Based Modeling of Coiled Tubing Plasticity and Fatigue

SPE Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Zhanke Liu ◽  
Steven Tipton ◽  
Dinesh Sukumar
Keyword(s):  
Damage Accumulation ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
State Variables ◽  
Coiled Tubing ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Fatigue Damage Accumulation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Novel Algorithms

Summary Coiled tubing (CT) integrity is critical for well intervention operations in the field. To monitor and manage tubing integrity, the industry has developed a number of computer models over the past decades. Among them, low-cycle fatigue (LCF) modeling plays a paramount role in safeguarding tubing integrity. LCF modeling of CT strings dates back to the 1980s. Recently, novel algorithms have contributed to developments in physics-based modeling of tubing fatigue and plasticity. When CT trips into and out of the well, it goes through bending/straightening cycles under high differential pressure. Such tough conditions lead to low- or ultralow-cycle fatigue, limiting CT useful life. The model proposed in this study is derived from a previous one and is based on rigorously derived material parameters to compute the evolution of state variables from a wide range of loading conditions. Through newly formulated plasticity and strain parameters, a physics-based damage model predicts CT fatigue life, along with diametral growth and wall thinning. The revised modeling approach gives results for CT damage accumulation, diametral growth, and wall thinning under realistic field conditions, with experimental validation. For 20 different CT alloys, it was observed that the model improved in accuracy overall by approximately 18.8% and consistency by 14.0%, for constant pressure data sets of more than 4,500 data points. The modeling results provide insights into the nonlinear nature of fatigue damage accumulation. This study allowed developing recommendations to guide future analytical modeling and experimental investigations, summarize theoretical findings in physics-based LCF modeling, and provide practical guidelines for CT string management in the field. The study provides a fundamental understanding of CT LCF and introduces novel algorithms in plasticity and damage.

Constitutive Models in Simulating Low-Cycle Fatigue and Ratcheting Responses of Elbow

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hassan ◽  
M. Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Damage Accumulation ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Constitutive Models ◽  
Strain Accumulation ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Force Response ◽  
Reasonable Accuracy ◽  
Experimental Trend ◽  
Strain Responses ◽  
Diameter Change

As stated in the sister article that the objective of this study was to explore the low-cycle fatigue and ratcheting failure responses of elbow components through experimental and analytical studies. Low-cycle fatigue and ratcheting damage accumulation in piping components may occur under load reversals induced by earthquakes or thermomechanical operations. Ratcheting damage accumulation can cause failure of components through cracking or plastic buckling. Hence, design by analysis of piping components against ratcheting failure will require simulation of this response with reasonable accuracy. In developing a constitutive model that can simulate ratcheting responses of piping components, a systematic set of elbow experiments involving deformation and strain ratcheting were conducted and reported in the sister article. This article will critically evaluate seven different constitutive models against their elbow response simulation capabilities. The widely used bilinear, multilinear, and Chaboche models in ansys are first evaluated. This is followed by evaluation of the modified Chaboche, Ohno–Wang, modified Ohno–Wang, and Abdel Karim–Ohno models. Results from this simulation study are presented to demonstrate that all the seven models can simulate the elbow force response reasonably. The bilinear and multilinear models can simulate the initial elbow diameter change or strain accumulation, but always simulate shakedown during the subsequent cycles when for some of the cases the experimental trends are ratcheting. Advanced constitutive models like Chaboche, modified Chaboche, Ohno–Wang, modified Ohno–Wang, and Abdel Karim–Ohno can simulate many of the elbow ratcheting responses well, but for some of the strain responses, these models simulate negative ratcheting, which is opposite to the experimental trend. Finally, implications of negative ratcheting simulation are discussed and suggestions are made for improving constitutive models ratcheting response simulation.

Latest Development in Physics-Based Modeling of Coiled Tubing Plasticity and Fatigue

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhanke Liu ◽  
Steven M. Tipton ◽  
Dinesh Sukumar
Keyword(s):  
Damage Accumulation ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Experimental Investigations ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
State Variables ◽  
Coiled Tubing ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Fatigue Damage Accumulation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Novel Algorithms

Abstract Coiled tubing (CT) integrity is critical for well intervention operations in the field. To monitor and manage tubing integrity, the industry has developed a number of computer models over the past decades. Among them, low-cycle fatigue (LCF) modeling plays a paramount role in safeguarding tubing integrity. LCF modeling of CT strings dates back to the 1980s. Recently, novel algorithms have contributed to developments in physics-based modeling of tubing fatigue and plasticity. As CT trips into and out of the well, it goes through bending-straightening cycles under high differential pressure. Such tough conditions lead to low- or ultralow-cycle fatigue, limiting CT useful life. The model proposed in this study is derived from a previous one and based on rigorously derived material parameters to compute the evolution of state variables from a wide range of loading conditions. Through newly formulated plasticity and strain parameters, a physics-based damage model predicts CT fatigue life, along with diametral growth and wall thinning. The revised modeling approach gives results for CT damage accumulation, diametral growth, and wall thinning under realistic field conditions, with experimental validation. For 20 different coiled tubing alloys, it was observed that the model improved in accuracy overall by about 18.8% and consistency by 14.0%, for constant pressure data sets of more than 4,500 data points. The modeling results provide insights into the nonlinear nature of fatigue damage accumulation. This study allowed developing recommendations to guide future analytical modeling and experimental investigations, to summarize theoretical findings in physics-based LCF modeling, and to provide practical guidelines for CT string management in the field. The study provides a fundamental understanding of CT LCF and introduces novel algorithms in plasticity and damage.

Prediction of Nonlinear Evolution of Fatigue Damage Accumulation From an Energy-Based Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
M.-H. Herman Shen ◽  
Sajedur R. Akanda
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Fatigue Damage ◽  
Applied Stress ◽  
Damage Accumulation ◽  
Nonlinear Evolution ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Welded Steel ◽  
Fatigue Damage Accumulation ◽  
Energy History

An energy-based framework is developed for welded steel and AL6061-T6 for assessment of nonlinear evolution of fatigue damage accumulation along fatigue life. The framework involves interrogation at continuum using a newly developed experimental procedure to determine the cyclic damaging energy to reveal that the accumulated fatigue damage evolves nonlinearly along cycle in case of low cycle fatigue but has somewhat linear relationship with cycle in case of high cycle fatigue. The accumulated fatigue damage is defined as the ratio of the accumulated cyclic damaging energy to the fatigue toughness, a material property and hence remains the same at all applied stress ranges. Based on the experimental data, a model is developed in order to predict cyclic damaging energy history at any applied stress range. The predicted fatigue damage evolution from the energy-based model are found to agree well with the experimental data.

Effect of Temperature Changes on the Waveform of Fatigue Damage Accumulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 598 ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanisław Mroziński ◽  
Michał Piotrowski
Keyword(s):  
Fatigue Life ◽  
Temperature Change ◽  
Damage Accumulation ◽  
Low Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Fatigue Tests ◽  
Effect Of Temperature ◽  
Cycle Fatigue ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Fatigue Damage Accumulation ◽  
Two Temperatures

In this paper there have been presented the results of low-cycle fatigue tests of steel P91 samples in the conditions of isothermal fixed amplitude loads as well as loads with a temperature change. Fixed amplitude isothermal loads were conducted on five levels of full strain and in two temperatures T1=20°C and T2=600°C. In the paper there has been found a significant influence of the sequence of temperature changes on the cyclic properties after the temperature change and on the fatigue life. The conducted experimental verification of the Palmgren-Miner hypothesis proved its influence on the temperature changes during the tests.

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