Creep Stress Analyses Affected by Load Properties on P91 Pipe with Local Wall Thinning under High Temperature

2011 ◽  
Vol 704-705 ◽  
pp. 1304-1309
Author(s):  
Ji Lin Xue ◽  
Chang Yu Zhou ◽  
Jian Peng
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Creep Strain ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Creep Condition ◽  
Stress Redistribution ◽  
Stress And Strain ◽  
Creep Stress ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Local Wall Thinning

The local wall thinning defect is very normal on pipes in power plants, which may result in stress redistribution of the pipes during the service process at elevated temperature. For the purpose of understanding the stress redistribution and strain accumulation of pipes with local wall thinning affected by load properties under creep condition, three groups of models were calculated, using three-dimensional elastic-plastic finite element analyses (FEA) based on FEA codes ABAQUS. In this study, the pipes has an identical defect of local wall thinning, the load properties and values are changed. Three groups of load properties, considering here, were monotonic internal pressure, monotonic moment and both internal pressure and moment, respectively. The numerical simulation conducted on P91 full-scale steel pipes at 625°C, with local wall thinning located at the inner surface. Then, von Mises stress and creep strain of pipes after 100,000h could be obtained corresponding to different models. Based on the analysis, the figures of creep stress and strain varying with load properties were plotted. Then, the stress and strain of pipes with local wall thinning affected by load properties were discussed. The results indicate that creep stress and creep strain increase with load properties. The variation laws have been summarized. The research results can provide the possibility on safety assessment and structure integrity analysis of the pipe with local wall thinning at high temperature effectively.

Creep Stress Analyses Affected by Defect Geometries on P91 Pipe With Local Wall Thinning Under High Temperature

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jilin Xue ◽  
Changyu Zhou ◽  
Jian Peng
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Creep Strain ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Creep Condition ◽  
Service Condition ◽  
Stress And Strain ◽  
Steel Pipes ◽  
Creep Stress ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Local Wall Thinning

P91 heat-resistant steel pipes are widely used at high temperature in power plants and nuclear power plants. The service condition and manufacturing process may produce defects of local wall thinning, which may result in stress redistribution of the pipes during the service process at elevated temperature. For the purpose of understanding the creep stress and strain accumulation affected by local wall thinning geometries under creep condition, three groups of models were calculated, using three-dimensional models based on finite element analyses (FEA) codes ABAQUS. In this study, monotonic internal pressure was conducted on P91 full-scale steel pipes at 625°C, with local wall thinning located at the inner surface. Then, the creep strain and stress of pipes after 100,000h could be obtained corresponding to different models. Based on the analysis, the figures of creep stress and strain varying with defect geometries were plotted. Then, the stress and strain of pipes with local wall thinning affected by defect geometries, including different defect depths, different defect axial lengths and different defect hoop angles, were discussed. The results indicate that creep stress and creep strain increase with defect geometries. The variation laws have been summarized. The research results can provide the possibility on safety assessment and structure integrity analysis of the pipe with local wall thinning at high temperature effectively.

Reference Stress Based Approach to Predict Failure Strength of Pipes With Local Wall Thinning Under Combined Loading

2005 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Do-Jun Shim ◽  
Young-Jin Kim ◽  
Yun-Jae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Equivalent Stress ◽  
New Method ◽  
Combined Loading ◽  
Failure Strength ◽  
Creep Stress ◽  
Reference Stress ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Good Agreement ◽  
Local Wall Thinning

In the previous work carried out by the authors, a new method to estimate failure strength of a pipe with local wall thinning subject to either internal pressure or global bending has been proposed. The proposed method was based on the equivalent stress averaged over the minimum ligament in the locally wall thinned region, and the simple scheme to estimate the equivalent stress in the minimum ligament was proposed, based on the reference stress concept for creep stress analysis. This paper extends the new method to combined internal pressure and global bending. The proposed method is validated against FE results for various geometries of local wall thinning under combined loading. The effect of internal pressure is also investigated in the present study. Comparison of maximum moments, predicted according to the proposed method, with published full-scale pipe test data for locally wall thinned pipes under combined internal pressure and global bending, shows good agreement.

Effects of Local Wall Thinning With Crack on Limit Loads for Pipes Subject to Combined Pressure and Bending

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy (Xiaoya) Tao ◽  
Lei Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Local Stress ◽  
Local Limit ◽  
Limit Load ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Minimum Thickness ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Local Wall Thinning

As power plants age, local thinning often occurs in pipework due to erosion/corrosion or other reasons. Local thinning reduces the strength of a pipe and increases the local stress. When the pipework is subject to cyclic loading, a crack could initiate from corrosion pit or welding defect at the local thinning. It is often required to carry out engineering critical assessment for a crack at the local thinned area to support safety case. Limit load or reference stress solution is needed to carry out flaw acceptance assessment to R6 or BS7910. These components are normally subject to combined internal pressure and global bending. Current practice for assessing these kinds of components is based on the minimum measured thickness or a factored minimum thickness. The former is overly conservative on limit load, leading to early sentencing of a component, whilst the latter is potentially non-conservative depending on the proposed factor, thinning profile and dominant load. For pipe with a crack or local thinning subject to internal pressure and global bending many closed form limit load solutions are available. However, limited information and solutions are available on how to determine the limit load of a cylinder with both crack and local wall thinning under combined pressure and moment loading. In this paper, the limit load solutions for pipe with a crack at the local thinned area are investigated using 3D finite element analysis for a range of pipe geometries with different internal excavations (local wall thinning) and circumferential cracks subject to combined pressure and global bending moment. The study also considers the differences between the global limit load of the thinned section (net-section collapse), the local limit load at the thinned area (local collapse) and the ligament limit load at the crack tip (ligament yield). Comparison is made between the elastic-plastic FE analyses and the handbook solutions.

Effect of Torsion on Collapse Bending Moment for 24-Inch Diameter Schedule 80 Pipes With Wall Thinning

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunio Hasegawa ◽  
Yinsheng Li ◽  
Bostjan Bezensek ◽  
Phuong Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Bending Moment ◽  
Combined Loading ◽  
Bending Moments ◽  
Compressive Stresses ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Nominal Thickness ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Loading Modes ◽  
Local Wall Thinning

Piping items in power plants may experience combined bending and torsion moments during operation. Currently, there is a lack of guidance in the ASME B&PV Code Section XI for combined loading modes including pressure, torsion and bending. Finite element analyses were conducted for 24-inch diameter Schedule 80 pipes with local wall thinning subjected to tensile and compressive stresses. Plastic collapse bending moments were calculated under constant torsion moments. From the calculation results, it can be seen that collapse bending moment for pipes with local thinning subjected to tensile stress is smaller than that subjected to compressive stress. In addition, equivalent moment is defined as the root the sum of the squares of the torsion and bending moments. It is found that the equivalent moments can be approximated with the pure bending moments, when the wall thinning length is equal or less than 7.73R·t for the wall thinning depth of 75% of the nominal thickness, where R is the mean radius and t is the wall thickness of the pipe.

Technical Basis for Application of Collapse Moments for Locally Thinned Pipes Subjected to Torsion and Bending Proposed for ASME Section XI

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunio Hasegawa ◽  
Yinsheng Li ◽  
Bostjan Bezensek ◽  
Phuong H. Hoang ◽  
Howard J. Rathbun
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Bending Moments ◽  
Finite Element Analyses ◽  
Pure Bending ◽  
Plastic Bending ◽  
Evaluation Procedures ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Applicable Range ◽  
Technical Basis ◽  
Local Wall Thinning

Piping components in power plants may experience combined bending and torsion moments during operation. There is a lack of guidance for pipe evaluation for pipes with local wall thinning flaws under the combined bending and torsion moments. ASME B&PV Code Section XI Working Group is currently developing fully plastic bending pipe evaluation procedures for pressurized piping components containing local wall thinning subjected to combined torsion and bending moments. Using elastic fully plastic finite element analyses, plastic collapse bending moments under torsions were obtained for 4 (114.3) to 24 (609.6) inch (mm) diameter pipes with various local wall thinning flaw sizes. The objective of this paper is to introduce an equivalent moment, which combines torsion and bending moments by a vector summation, and to establish the applicable range of wall thinning lengths, angles and depths, where the equivalent moments are equal to pure bending moments.

Effect of Circumferential Location of Local Wall Thinning Defect on the Collapse Moment of Elbow

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Weon Kim ◽  
Yeon Soo Na ◽  
Chi Yong Park
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Internal Pressure ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Piping System ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Bending Load ◽  
Local Wall Thinning ◽  
Steel Piping

Local wall-thinning due to flow-accelerated corrosion is one of the degradation mechanisms of carbon steel piping in nuclear power plant (NPP). It is a main concern in carbon steel piping systems in terms of the safety and operability of the NPP. Recently, the integrity of piping components containing local wall-thinning has become more important for maintaining the reliability of a nuclear piping system, and has been the subject of several studies. However, although wall-thinning in pipe bends and elbows has been frequently reported, its effect on the integrity of pipe bends and elbows has not yet been systematically investigated. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the circumferential location of a local wall-thinning defect on the collapse behavior of an elbow. For this purpose, the present study used three-dimensional finite element analyses on a 90-degree elbow containing local wall-thinning at the crown of the bend region and evaluated the collapse moment of the wall-thinned elbow under various thinning geometries and loading conditions. The combined internal pressure and bending loads were considered as an applied load. Internal pressure of 0∼20 MPa and both closing-and opening-mode bending were applied. The results of the analyses showed that a reduction in the collapse moment of the elbow due to local wall-thinning was more significant when a defect was located at the crown than when a defect was located at the intrados and extrados. Also, the effect of the internal pressure on the collapse moment depended on the circumferential location of the thinning defect and mode of the bending load.

Application of Laser-Generated Ultrasound for Evaluation of Thickness Reduction in Carbon Steel Pipes

2006 ◽  
Vol 321-323 ◽  
pp. 743-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Ho Park ◽  
Joon Hyun Lee ◽  
Gyeong Chul Seo ◽  
Sang Woo Choi
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
Guided Wave ◽  
Thickness Reduction ◽  
Steel Pipes ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Wall Thinning ◽  
Local Wall Thinning

In carbon steel pipes of nuclear power plants, local wall thinning may result from erosion-corrosion or flow-accelerated corrosion(FAC) damage. Local wall thinning is one of the major causes for the structural fracture of these pipes. Therefore, assessment of local wall thinning due to corrosion is an important issue in nondestructive evaluation for the integrity of nuclear power plants. In this study, laser-generated ultrasound technique was employed to evaluate local wall thinning due to corrosion. Guided waves were generated in the thermoelastic regime using a Q-switched pulsed Nd:YAG laser with a linear slit array. . In this paper, time-frequency analysis of ultrasonic waveforms using wavelet transform allowed the identification of generated guided wave modes by comparison with the theoretical dispersion curves. Modes conversion and group velocity were employed to detect thickness reduction.

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