Model Error Assessment of Burst Capacity Models for Defect-Free Pipes

Author(s):  
W. Zhou ◽  
G. (Terry) Huang

The model errors associated with 19 burst pressure prediction models for defect-free thin-walled pipes are evaluated using a total of 76 full-scale burst test data of perfect pipes and pressure vessels collected from the literature. The considered models are based on the Tresca yield criterion, the von Mises yield criterion, or the average shear stress yield criterion. The probabilistic characteristics of the model error, i.e. the mean, coefficient of variation and best-fit probability distribution, are obtained based on the test-to-predicted ratios. The applicability of an empirical equation for estimating the strain hardening exponent in the burst capacity models is also evaluated. The model errors obtained in this study can be used in the structural reliability analysis of energy pipelines with respect to the limit state of burst of defect-free pipes and will facilitate the reliability-based design and assessment of pipelines.

Author(s):  
Q. Ma ◽  
C. Levy ◽  
M. Perl

Our previous studies have shown that stress intensity factors (SIFs) are influenced considerably from the presence of the Bauschinger Effect (BE) in thick-walled pressurized cracked cylinders. For some types of pressure vessels, such as gun barrels, working in corrosive environment, in addition to acute temperature gradients and repetitive high-pressure impulses, erosions can be practically induced. Those erosions cause stress concentration at the bore, where cracks can readily initiate and propagate. In this study, The BE on the SIFs will be investigated for a crack emanating from an erosion’s deepest point in a multiply eroded autofrettaged, pressurized thick-walled cylinder. A commercial finite element package, ANSYS, was employed to perform this type of analysis. A two-dimensional model, analogous to the authors’ previous studies, has been adopted for this new investigation. Autofrettage with and without BE, based on von Mises yield criterion, is simulated by thermal loading and the SIFs are determined by the nodal displacement method. The SIFs are evaluated for a variety of relative crack lengths, a0/t = 0.01–0.45 emanating from the tip of the erosion of different geometries including (a) semi-circular erosions of relative depths of 1–10 percent of the cylinder’s wall thickness, t; (b) arc erosions for several dimensionless radii of curvature, r′/t = 0.05–0.4; and (c) semi-elliptical erosions with ellipticities of d/h = 0.5–1.5, and erosion span angle, α, from 6 deg to 360 deg. The effective SIFs for relatively short cracks are found to be increased by the presence of the erosion and further increased due to the BE, which may result in a significant decrease in the vessel’s fatigue life. Deep cracks are found to be almost unaffected by the erosion, but are considerably affected by BE.


Author(s):  
John H. Underwood ◽  
David B. Moak ◽  
Michael A. Audino ◽  
Anthony P. Parker

Yield pressure corresponding to a small permanent OD strain was measured in quasi-static laboratory tests of autofrettaged ASTM A723 steel cannon pressure vessels. Yield pressure was found to be a consistent ratio of the yield strength measured from specimens located in close proximity to the area of observed yielding. Yield pressure measurements for dynamic cannon firing with typically a 5 ms pressure pulse duration gave 14% higher yield pressures, attributed to strain rate effects on plastic deformation. Calculated Von Mises yield pressure for the laboratory test conditions, including the Bauschinger-modified ID residual stress and open-end vessel conditions, agreed with measured yield pressure within 3–5%. Calculated yield pressure was found to be insensitive to the value of axial residual stress, since axial stress is the intermediate value in the Von Mises yield criterion. A description of yield pressure normalized by yield strength was given for autofrettaged A723 open-end pressure vessels over a range of wall ratio and degree of autofrettage, including effects of Bauschinger-modified residual stress. This description of yield pressure is proposed as a design procedure for cannons and other pressure vessels.


2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Underwood ◽  
David B. Moak ◽  
Michael J. Audino ◽  
Anthony P. Parker

Yield pressure corresponding to a small permanent OD strain was measured in quasi-static laboratory tests of autofrettaged ASTM A723 steel cannon pressure vessels. Yield pressure was found to be a consistent ratio of the yield strength measured from specimens located in close proximity to the area of observed yielding. Yield pressure measurements for dynamic cannon firing with typically a 5-ms pressure pulse duration gave 14% higher yield pressures, attributed to strain rate effects on plastic deformation. Calculated Von Mises yield pressure for the laboratory test conditions, including the Bauschinger-modified ID residual stress and open-end vessel conditions, agreed with measured yield pressure within 3–5%. Calculated yield pressure was found to be insensitive to the value of axial residual stress, since axial stress is the intermediate value in the Von Mises yield criterion. A description of yield pressure normalized by yield strength was given for autofrettaged A723 open-end pressure vessels over a range of wall ratio and degree of autofrettage, including effects of Bauschinger-modified residual stress. This description of yield pressure is proposed as a design procedure for cannons and other pressure vessels.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Kamal ◽  
Faruque Aziz

Abstract Rotational autofrettage is one of the recently proposed potential methods for eliminating the in-service yielding of thick-walled cylindrical pressure vessels. A few researchers have studied the feasibility of the process theoretically, and asserted certain advantages over the practicing hydraulic and swage autofrettage processes. In the literature, all theoretical analyses on the rotational autofrettage are based on the Tresca yield criterion and its associated flow rule, along with the assumption of different plane end conditions (plane strain and generalized plane strain). In this paper, an analysis of the rotational autofrettage of cylindrical vessel is attempted incorporating von Mises yield criterion. The plane strain condition is used for the analysis. A numerical shooting method is used to solve the governing differential equations providing the elastic-plastic stress distributions in the cylinder during loading. The present procedure is numerically experimented for a typical AH36 pressure vessel. It is found that the achievable level of the maximum stress pressure of the rotationally autofrettaged vessel is 74.46% higher than that of its non-autofrettaged counterpart for an overstrain level of 46.7%.


2012 ◽  
Vol 569 ◽  
pp. 598-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eui Soo Kim ◽  
Jong Hyuk Kim ◽  
Byung Sun Moon ◽  
Jae Mo Goh

CNG vehicles have to be equipped with a safe and reliable storage tank, such as composite pressure vessels, since the failure of the CNG storage tank induces fatal damages to passengers. In this research, the cause of vessel facture is investigated through formal inspection and engineering test procedures. Specifically, the composite pressure vessel design will be validated using the finite element method. In order to validate values of the optimal design variables in accordance with standard of the high pressure gas safety management, we used safety probability such as Von-Mises yield criterion, Tsai-Hill theory and stress ratio.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Q. Ma ◽  
C. Levy ◽  
M. Perl

Our previous studies have shown that stress intensity factors (SIFs) are influenced considerably from the presence of the Bauschinger Effect (BE) in thick-walled pressurized cracked cylinders. For some types of pressure vessels, such as gun barrels, working in corrosive environment, in addition to acute temperature gradients and repetitive high-pressure impulses, erosions can be practically induced. Those erosions cause stress concentration at the bore, where cracks can readily initiate and propagate. In this study, the BE on the SIFs will be investigated for a crack emanating from an erosion’s deepest point in a multiply eroded autofrettaged, pressurized thick-walled cylinder. A commercial finite element package, ansys, was employed to perform this type of analysis. A two-dimensional model, analogous to the authors’ previous studies, has been adopted for this new investigation. Autofrettage with and without BE, based on von Mises yield criterion, is simulated by thermal loading and the SIFs are determined by the nodal displacement method. The SIFs are evaluated for a variety of relative crack lengths, a0/t = 0.01–0.45 emanating from the tip of the erosion of different geometries including (a) semicircular erosions of relative depths of 1%–10% of the cylinder’s wall thickness, t; (b) arc erosions for several dimensionless radii of curvature, r′/t = 0.05–0.4; and (c) semi-elliptical erosions with ellipticities of d/h = 0.5–1.5, and erosion span angle, α, from 6 deg to 360 deg. The effective SIFs for relatively short cracks are found to be increased by the presence of the erosion and further increased due to the BE, which may result in a significant decrease in the vessel’s fatigue life. Deep cracks are found to be almost unaffected by the erosion, but are considerably affected by BE.


1994 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Loghman ◽  
M. A. Wahab

A thick-walled closed-end cylinder of isotropic, homogeneous and strain-hardening material is considered in this study. Loading is assumed to consist of a temperature gradient as well as an internal pressure. Unloading is completely elastic without considering a Bauschinger effect. A generalized plane strain case in which the material obeys Von Mises yield criterion is studied. Using the yield criterion, critical conditions for a wide range of loading combinations and thickness ratios are investigated. After the critical condition is established, load is increased beyond the critical values and calculations are made for plastic stresses and strains and progress of plastic zone using an incremental theory of plasticity. Residual stresses are obtained as the cylinder is unloaded from a 25 and 50-percent overstrained condition. Reverse yielding is not considered while the residual stresses at the onset of reverse yielding are calculated. Loading function is assumed to follow the stress-strain curve of SUS 304 at a constant temperature of 400°C, which is selected from the experimental work of earlier researchers.


Author(s):  
W. Zhou ◽  
G. (Terry) Huang ◽  
S. Zhang

The model errors associated with five representative burst pressure prediction models, namely B31G, B31G Modified, DNV, PCORRC and RSTRENG, for corroded pipelines are evaluated based on a relatively large number full-scale burst tests on corroded pipes reported in the literature. All the test specimens in the database contain single isolated real corrosion defects. The means, coefficients of variation (COVs) and probability distribution of the model errors for the considered burst capacity models are derived based on the test-to-predicted burst pressure ratios for the collected test data. A numerical example is used to illustrate the impact of the model error on the probability of burst of the corroding pipeline.


Author(s):  
Shinji Katsura ◽  
Hiroo Okada ◽  
Koji Masaoka ◽  
Takashi Tsubogo

This paper deals with the limit state and reliability analysis of huge barge structures (HBS) which are supposed floating refuse storage and incineration plant based on collapsing behavior analysis in irregular waves as a part of studies on structural reliability-based design methods. First, a limit state and reliability analysis method is shortly presented for the buckling and ultimate collapse strength of deck, bulkhead and bottom panels of HBS. Next, a simplified method is briefly introduced for collapsing behavior and reliability analysis of HBS under extreme sea loads by using a developed system combined with a finite element method and plastic node method using hexahedral element models. Moreover, a simplified estimation method is shortly introduced for the probabilistic load model considering the hydro-elastic response of the structure in irregular waves. Finally, dominant limit state modes of 1,000m-class HBS under combined loads with bending moment, shearing force and lateral pressure are obtained by applying the above methods. Then, the features of the collapsing behavior and reliability level are investigated by using above calculation results. Effects of statistical values such as reduction of thickness due to corrosion, yield stress and design parameters are also investigated using sensitivity analysis.


1970 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Gerdeen ◽  
D. N. Hutula

Plastic collapse of ellipsoidal head pressure vessels is considered. The heads have an inside semimajor axis to semiminor axis ratio of 2:1. Diameter to thickness ratios (D/t) vary from 20–2000. Calculations are performed based upon the von Mises yield criterion. Previous results based upon the Tresca yield criterion are included for comparison. The combined results give reasonably close bounds on the plastic collapse pressure (limit pressure) over the large range of D/t.


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