Simplified Method for Predicting Impact Loads of Solid-Walled Transportation Packagings for Radioactive Materials

1989 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. W. Teper ◽  
R. G. Sauve´

Transportation packagings for radioactive materials must withstand severe impact conditions without loss of integrity and without excessive permanent distortions in the seal regions. The compliance with the requirements may be shown either through extensive testing, elastic-plastic impact analysis, or a combination of both. Elastic-plastic finite element analysis, although less costly than testing, is usually expensive and time consuming. In this paper, simplified methods for determining the impact force are presented for the following impact cases of solid-walled casks: impact on a pin, impact on an edge, and impact on a corner. The results of the simplified methods are in good agreement with the results of elastic-plastic finite element analysis. It is shown that in each case almost the entire impact energy is dissipated by the plastic deformation of the material in the impact zone.

2012 ◽  
Vol 580 ◽  
pp. 342-345
Author(s):  
Wen Chao Li ◽  
Xin Sheng Ge

In this paper, combining specific project, the overall elastic-plastic model under the joint action of the upper structure and foundation in the long-short composite piled foundation is established using ANSYS. Consider the effects of the long pile replacement rate to the long-short composite piled foundation.


1991 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 286-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. W. Tedesco ◽  
P. B. McGill ◽  
W. G. McDougal

A finite element analysis is conducted to determine the critical impact velocities for concrete dolos. The model formulation includes deformations at the contact surface and nonlinear material properties. Two dolos orientations are considered: vertical fluke seaward and horizontal fluke seaward. In both cases, the larger units fail at lower angular impact velocities. It is also shown that doubling the concrete strength increases the impact resistance by approximately 40 percent.


Author(s):  
Satish C. Chaparala ◽  
Praveen R. Samala ◽  
Joshua M. Jacobs ◽  
Jonathan D. Pesansky

Response of brittle plate-like structures to impact loads (suddenly applied loads) has been the subject of many research studies. Specifically, glass used in various household, consumer electronics applications can be subjected to different kinds of impact loads. An ion-exchanged alumino-silicate glass developed by Corning Incorporated, also called Corning® Gorilla® Glass is used as cover glass for flat-panel televisions. One of the reliability tests that may be required for this application is that a steel ball of certain diameter is dropped from certain height at different locations on the glass panel mounted onto a frame. The requirement is that the glass should survive 2 J of impact energy at the center of the glass and 0.5 J of impact energy at the edges. These reliability requirements could change depending on the application and the customer. In this study, finite element analysis is carried out to understand the impact response of such glass panels. Experiments are conducted using strain gauges to measure the panel response at the center of glass with impacts up to 3.3 J. Finite element analysis results are then validated by comparing the predicted strain response with those of measurements.


2013 ◽  
Vol 738 ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
Hai Peng Gao ◽  
Meng Liu ◽  
Jun Wang

At present, mechanics properties of composite at home and abroad only include data of the single-layer board. On the basis of researching literature of composite finite element analysis, approaches of setting composite three-dimensional parameters based on the parameters of single-layer material are summarized. By three-dimensional finite element analysis on composite whole cockpit, the impact of uncertain parameters on cockpit analysis results is studied. Adopting maximum stress criteria, maximum strain criteria and Tsai-Wu criteria to evaluate the initial failure of composite whole cockpit, the impact of material uncertain parameters on initial breaking strength prediction of cockpit is studied. The study can provide reference for three-dimensional finite element analysis of composite whole cockpit.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Jones ◽  
J. E. Holliday ◽  
L. D. Larson

This paper provides a comparison between test and analysis results for bursting of thin toroidal shells. Testing was done by pressurizing two toroidal shells until failure by bursting. An analytical criterion for bursting is developed based on good agreement between structural instability predicted by large strain-large displacement elastic-plastic finite element analysis and observed burst pressure obtained from test. The failures were characterized by loss of local stability of the membrane section of the shells consistent with the predictions from the finite element analysis. Good agreement between measured and predicted burst pressure suggests that incipient structural instability as calculated by an elastic-plastic finite element analysis is a reasonable way to calculate the bursting pressure of thin membrane structures.


Author(s):  
Surendran PN ◽  
Satheesh Kumar KRP

The primary thought of this review is to assess the impact absorbance, strength and durability properties using non-linear finite element simulations of analytical model of crash barriers. Before manufacturing and erection of crash barriers on site are generally simulated for impact performance using finite element analysis various parameters are checked such as 1) Crash performance 2) Vehicle trajectory after collision 3) Safety of the vehicular occupant.


Author(s):  
X Wang ◽  
M-Ch Dong ◽  
G Lu

In this paper, a polynomial stress function is utilized to satisfy both the governing differential equation for an anisotropic plane stress problem and the corresponding boundary conditions for plastic deformation. A theoretical solution for the thermal elastic-plastic problem of composite structure is obtained by means of the Tsai-Hill strength theory of anisotropic material. The composite structure is composed of a steel fibre-reinforced aluminium metal-matrix with a linear hardening material property. On the other hand, an elastic-plastic finite element analysis for the same problem is also carried out by using ABAQUS. The theoretical solution is in good agreement with the results from the finite element analysis. Finally, some examples are given and the corresponding results are discussed.


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