Finite element analysis of viscoelastic creep behaviors of deep-sea manned submersible viewport windows

2020 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 104218
Author(s):  
P.F. Liu ◽  
J.X. Li ◽  
S.B. Wang ◽  
J.X. Leng
Author(s):  
Koji Gotoh ◽  
Tetsuya Ueda ◽  
Koji Murakami ◽  
Tomoaki Utsunomiya

Abstract Floating wind turbine facilities installed in deep sea areas play an essential role in the promotion of green energy. One of the problems associated with the commercialization of facilities installed in the deep sea is the maintenance cost of mooring chains, because they are expensive and wear between links leads to chain breakage. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a quantitative wear evaluation method for mooring chains. An experimental facility to reproduce the wear caused by sliding between links at the scale of an actual floating wind turbine was developed to investigate the wear performance in seawater conditions, and wear tests were conducted. Substitute ocean water was applied to the experiment instead of seawater. In addition, a procedure for nonlinear finite element analysis was improved to estimate the behaviour of wear between links. Measured stress versus strain relations of the links was considered in the finite element analysis. The experiments and numerical analysis confirmed that the amount of wear in the substitute ocean water was less than that obtained in dry air and that the tensile force between links is an important factor for the degree of wear between links.


2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-129
Author(s):  
Yao Zilin ◽  
Wang Yu ◽  
Yang Xuefeng ◽  
Gao Anping ◽  
Zhang Rong ◽  
...  

AbstractDue to the complexity of the marine environment, in deep-sea drilling, all kinds of strings are corroded by different deep-sea conditions for a long time, accompanied by high temperature and high pressure, which lead to the continuous change of mechanical properties of materials. In order to solve the problem that the material mechanical parameters cannot be accurately described in the performance analysis of the casing, deep-sea simulated corrosion and material damage experiments of P110 material were carried out in this paper. Mass loss and tensile experiments on corrosion-damaged test pieces were conducted under different corrosion experimental periods. The changes in mechanical properties of the material were analyzed. Equations of the variation of the equivalent yield strength and the equivalent tensile strength were obtained. The results show that the equivalent yield strength and the equivalent tensile strength decrease with the increase of the weight loss rate. Based on the experimental results and finite element analysis, a method for establishing the material corrosion model was proposed in this paper. The deep-sea drilling corrosion performance model of P110 material was established, which greatly reduced the error caused by the material uniformity assumption in finite element analysis. This paper provides a theoretical basis for the analysis of reliability and life of P110 materials in wells.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald F. Gibson ◽  
Jvalit K. Baxi ◽  
Frederick Stoll ◽  
David Bettinger ◽  
Vincent Johnson

Abstract This paper describes the finite element numerical simulation of the mechanical behavior of a pre-stressed, heat-shrinkable, fiber reinforced polymer composite connector during assembly and operation. A multi-step finite element analysis has been developed to simulate the stresses and deformations developed due to prestressing and heat-shrinking during assembly. Then the viscoelastic creep during storage of the connector was modeled and compared with measured creep in order to estimate the practical storage life of the connector. Finally, the mechanical behavior of the joint during operation was simulated by the use of four point bending tests, and again the predictions from the multi-step finite element analysis were compared with measurements.


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