Ratcheting, Wrinkling and Collapse of Tubes Induced by Axial Cycling Under Internal Pressure

Author(s):  
Rong Jiao ◽  
Stelios Kyriakides

A buried offshore pipeline is essentially axially constrained by the soil cover. Heating by the passage of hot oil at high pressure can plastically deform it. The deformation involves expansion of the diameter, which for thinner pipes can be accompanied by axisymmetric wrinkling. During a lifetime of 20 or more years, lines experience regular startup and shutdown cycles. This study examines how this cycling affects wrinkling and the hoop expansion of such lines. A set of experiments on super-duplex tubes with D/t of 28.5 was conducted using the following idealized cyclic loading history. A tube is first pressurized and then compressed into the plastic range to a level that initiates wrinkling. It is then cycled under stress control about a compressive mean stress while the pressure is kept constant. The combined loads cause simultaneous ratcheting in the hoop and axial directions as well as a gradual growth of the wrinkles. At some stage the amplitude of the wrinkles starts to grow exponentially with the number of cycles N leading to localization and collapse. The rate of ratcheting and the number of cycles to failure depend on the initial compressive pre-strain, the internal pressure and the stress cycle parameters. The problem is modeled as a shell with initial axisymmetric imperfections. A challenge in the simulations is that the cyclic plasticity model that is used must be capable of capturing correctly the type of biaxial material ratcheting that develops. The Dafalias-Popov two-surface nonlinear kinematic hardening model, enhanced and suitably calibrated is shown to capture the prevalent ratcheting deformations correctly leading to predictions that are in good agreement with the experimental results. The model is then used to evaluate the ratcheting behavior of pipes under thermal-pressure cyclic loading histories seen by buried pipelines.

Author(s):  
Seiichiro Tsutsumi

In order to simulate mechanical fatigue phenomena under macroscopically elastic condition, the plastic stretching within a yield surface has to be described, whilst the plastic strain is induced remarkably as the stress approaches the dominant yielding state. In this study, a phenomenological plasticity model, proposed for the description of the cyclic loading behavior observed for typical carbon steels during the high-cycle fatigue subjected to stresses lower than the yield stress, is applied for the prediction of fatigue initiation life. The model is formulated based on the unconventional plasticity model and is applied for materials obeying isotropic and kinematic hardening law. The mechanical responses under cyclic loading conditions are examined briefly. Finally, the initiation life of fatigue cracking is discussed based on the proposed model with the damage counting parameter.


Author(s):  
R. Jiao ◽  
S. Kyriakides

Pipelines buried in trenches and covered by soil are essentially under full axial constraint. Under such conditions, a temperature change resulting from the passage of hot oil coupled with high internal pressure can plastically deform the pipe. If the line is relatively thin the compression can induce axisymmetric wrinkling. Mild wrinkling is benign, but at higher strain levels it leads to collapse by localized wrinkling. During a lifetime of 20 or more years, lines experience many startup and shutdown cycles (∼100). This work investigates whether a tube that develops small amplitude wrinkles can be subsequently collapsed by persistent cycling. The problem is investigated experimentally using SAF2507 super-duplex steel tubes with D/t of 28.5. The tubes are first compressed to strain levels high enough for mild wrinkles to form; they are then cycled axially under stress control about a compressive mean stress. This type of cycling usually results in material ratcheting; here it is accompanied by accumulation of structural damage due to the growth of the amplitude of the initial wrinkles. The tube average strain initially grows nearly linearly with the number of cycles, but as a critical value of wrinkle amplitude is approached, wrinkling localizes, ratcheting grows exponentially and the tube collapses. The rate of ratcheting and the number of cycles to failure depend on the initial compressive pre-strain and on the amplitude of the stress cycles. However, collapse was found to occur when the accumulated average strain reaches the value at which the tube localizes under monotonic compression. A custom shell model of the tube with initial axisymmetric imperfections, coupled to a cyclic plasticity model is used to simulate successfully the series of experiments performed.


Author(s):  
Panagiotis J. Charitidis

The present study tries to present a cyclic hardening model with the aim to simulate quantitatively the material response under strain controlled cyclic loading in tension-compression, of specified axial deformation. A numerical study was carried out to investigate the cyclic constitutive behaviour of alloy Indium under viscoplastic deformation. The analysis was performed under prescribed symmetric strain-controlled cyclic loading. The model contains both isotropic and kinematic hardening components, while the analysis were performed using Comsol Multiphysics for only 60 seconds duration. The kinematic hardening was described by using multiple back stresses. Multiple back stresses can provide a smoother transition between the elastic and plastic deformation, and it improves the general shape of the hysteresis loop. Two cases (geometries) have been examined in this study. From the material model and finite element cyclic plasticity model results, it is found that for the same parameters, but different dimensions there is difference on the stress-strain curves as well as on the von Mises stresses.


1978 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Lamba ◽  
O. M. Sidebottom

Experiments that demonstrate the basic quantitative and qualitative aspects of the cyclic plasticity of metals are presented in Part 1. Three incremental plasticity kinematic hardening models of prominence are based on the Prager, Ziegler, and Mroz hardening rules, of which the former two have been more frequently used than the latter. For a specimen previously fully stabilized by out of phase cyclic loading the results of a subsequent cyclic nonproportional strain path experiment are compared to the predictions of the above models. A formulation employing a Tresca yield surface translating inside a Tresca limit surface according to the Mroz hardening rule gives excellent predictions and also demonstrates the erasure of memory material property.


1995 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 646-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Yang ◽  
W. N. Sharpe

A straightforward procedure is demonstrated for measuring local cyclic elastoplastic biaxial stresses at notch roots. First, the biaxial cyclic strains are measured over short gage lengths (150 or 200 micrometers) with a laser-based strain measuring system. Then, cyclic stresses are computed from those measured strains by using an elastoplastic constitutive model. The material selected for this study is HY-80 steel which has a fine grain size and is isotropic. Double-notched specimens were prepared with two different notch geometries: a U-shaped notch with a 4.76 mm radius and a V-shaped notch with a 1.0 mm radius. Two thicknesses, 2.54 and 12.7 mm, were tested for each notch geometry to produce four different amounts of notch constraint. The results of cyclic biaxial strain measurements show good reproducibility. Stress computations based on two different constitutive models were used to compute stresses for the first cycle and a stable cycle. One of the constitutive models is the classical J2flow theory and the other is a two-surface cyclic plasticity model. The results computed using these two models show good agreement with each other. The measured stresses show the effect of constraint on the elastoplastic behavior at notch roots under cyclic loading conditions.


Author(s):  
Mohammad Noban ◽  
Hamid Jahed

A time efficient method for predicting ratchetting strain is proposed. By finding the ratchetting rate, at only a few cycles, the ratchetting strain of any cycle can be determined. It is shown that a trajectory of the origin of stress may be defined in the deviatoric stress space as the ratchetting progresses. The method for obtaining this trajectory from a standard uniaxial asymmetric cyclic loading is presented. At the beginning, this trajectory coincides with the initial stress origin and approaches the mean stress, displaying a power law relationship with the number of loading cycles. This path defines a moving frame of reference for stress tensor calculations. Ratchetting rates for different cyclic loading are calculated with the knowledge of this frame of reference and through utilizing a constitutive cyclic plasticity model which incorporates deviatoric stresses and back stresses that are measured with respect to this moving frame. The proposed model is used to predict ratchetting strain of 1070 steel under single step constant amplitude and multi-step loading. The method is also applied to non-proportional loading. Results obtained agree with the available experimental measurements.


2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (30) ◽  
pp. 4307-4317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Kassapoglou

An approach to predict static and fatigue failure of composite laminates with holes is presented. Static failure is predicted when the stress averaged over a characteristic distance is equal to the un-notched failure strength. This averaging distance is determined analytically without the use of additional testing or need for extra material parameters. During fatigue loading, the size of the damage region next to the hole is calculated and the strains at the hole edge are determined. These are used along with the stresses just outside the damage region to determine whether failure starts at the hole edge or the edge of the damage region extends. A previously developed fatigue model based on the cycle-by-cycle probability of failure is used to calculate the number of cycles needed for the residual strain at hole edge or the residual strength at the edge of the damage region to fall below the corresponding applied values. The procedure is repeated until laminate failure. The method is also used to predict cycles to failure for impacted specimens. The predictions are in very good agreement with test results.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Anglani ◽  
Jean-Marc Tulliani ◽  
Paola Antonaci

Capsule-based self-healing is increasingly being targeted as an effective way to improve the durability and sustainability of concrete infrastructures through the extension of their service life. Assessing the mechanical and durability behaviour of self-healing materials after damage and subsequent autonomous repair is essential to validate their possible use in real structures. In this study, self-healing mortars containing cementitious tubular capsules with a polyurethanic repairing agent were experimentally investigated. Their mechanical behaviour under both static and cyclic loading was analysed as a function of some factors related to the capsules themselves (production method, waterproof coating configuration, volume of repairing agent stored) or to the specimens (number, size and distribution of the capsules in the specimen). Their mechanical performances were quantified in terms of recovery of load-bearing capacity under static conditions and number of cycles to failure as a function of the peak force under cyclic conditions. Positive results were achieved, with a maximum load recovery index up to more than 40% and number of cycles to failure exceeding 10,000 in most cases, with peak force applied during cyclic loading at least corresponding to 70% of the estimated load-bearing capacity of the healed samples.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.M. Al-Mukhtar

Fatigue plays a significant role in the crack growth of the fuselage skin structures. In addition, the fuselage may suffer also from the corrosion damage, and the wear defects. The proper maintenance and scheduled test intervals can avoid the sudden skin failure. Therefore, the inspection interval has to be shortened. Nevertheless, the young machines may be also suffering from the unexpected skin rupture. The cracks are emanating from the rivets and the holes under cyclic loading. The stress concentration around the notch has an effective role under the effect of cyclic loading. The cracks propagate toward the high stressed area such as the notches or other crack locations. The propagation into a critical crack size is rather fast and causes a sudden aircraft fuselage cracking. Hence, the number of cycles to failure will be decreased dramatically. During the last decades, the fracture toughness, design, and the new alloying element have been enhanced. The previous fuselage failures show that the inspections against the cracking are recommended even after a few thousand of cycles. To prevent the crack extending, the crack arresting is recommended to use around the fuselage.


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