SAFEBUCK JIP: Critical Aspects of the Fatigue Limit State for Pipelines Designed to Laterally Buckle

Author(s):  
David Baxter ◽  
Peter Tubby
Author(s):  
Jeom Kee Paik ◽  
Anil Kumar Thayamballi

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 17-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Or Neuberg ◽  
Nitai Drimer

Author(s):  
Lucie Guignier ◽  
Riccardo Mariani ◽  
Arthur Cottet-Emard ◽  
Stéphane Toumit ◽  
Thomas Choisnet

Abstract This paper presents the design and performance assessment of 220kV dynamic export cables for a floating substation characterized by a ring-shaped floater known as Damping Pool. The main originality of the design presented is that the cables considered have dry conductors. They are shielded from the water by a longitudinally welded corrugated copper sheath. Similar cables have been operating at lower voltage levels and thus with thinner insulation thicknesses. The export cable configuration has been designed considering environmental conditions representative of both the Central North Sea, Pacific Coast of Japan or the US, in 100m water depth. Ultimate and fatigue limit-state design verification of the configuration are made through nonlinear time-domain analysis using coupled models comprising the floating substation hull, the mooring system and dynamic export cables. Fatigue limit-state design verification is based on the fatigue properties of the cable section, combined with appropriate S-N curves of the armour layers and metallic screen-sheath. Design verifications show that the dynamic export cable configuration proposed could satisfactorily meet the performance requirements for a service life over 25 years, considering proven cable equipment such as a bend stiffener remaining within today’s manufacturer molding capacities.


Author(s):  
Haiyan Long ◽  
Geir Moe

The fatigue assessment of support structures is one of the most significant challenges in the design of offshore wind turbines (OWT). Fatigue analysis can be conducted in either the time-domain or the frequency-domain. The advantage of frequency-domain analysis is its time efficiency. This paper shows how the frequency domain method can be used to dimension lattice-type OWT towers such that they meet the fatigue criteria in the preliminary design stage. Two types of lattice towers, a three-legged and four-legged version, were redesigned in the fatigue limit state for the NREL 5 MW baseline wind turbine sited at a water depth of 35 m. The wall thickness of the members was chosen as the only variable and varied during the design process until the towers could survive for at least 20 years. In comparison with designs based upon ultimate strength, the mass of both types of towers increased no more than 30% when the fatigue limit state was considered. It is concluded that the lattice type structure requires only half as much material as its tubular counterpart. The three-legged tower is promising because of its simple geometry, even though it displayed a lower torsional stiffness than the four-legged tower. All the analyses in this paper were performed by an in-house FE code, intended for the early design stage of lattice towers. Once the optimum configuration is found in the early design stage, integrated time-domain analyses for the entire OWT system might be required to refine the design, taking all the nonlinear parameters into account.


Author(s):  
Maria M. Szerszen ◽  
Andrzej S. Nowak

The fatigue limit state is one of the important considerations in the design of bridges. Accumulated load cycles can cause cracking or even failure. An approach to evaluation of steel and concrete bridges with regard to fatigue is presented. The method for prediction of the remaining life of a bridge superstructure is based on the load model and the procedure to estimate fatigue degradation of materials. In the case of steel girders, degradation of material is considered using S-N curves. For reinforced concrete beams, degradation of concrete in the compressive zone is described by the rheological fatigue model. Reliability analysis is performed for the fatigue limit state function of flexure. Prediction of the remaining fatigue life for steel and concrete beams is illustrated on examples of existing bridge girders.


Author(s):  
Ravil Sharipov ◽  
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Sergey Zenin ◽  
Sergey Krylov ◽  
Yuri Volkov ◽  
...  

В нормах по проектированию железобетонных конструкций зданий и сооружений (начиная с 1962 г. и по настоящее время) содержится методика расчета на выносливость, которая была составлена с учетом обобщения и анализа данных многочисленных экспериментально-теоретических исследований. Последующее использование данной методики в практике проектирования железобетонных конструкций показало, что при эксплуатации конструкций, рассчитанных с учетом требований по выносливости, разрушений не происходило. Вместе с тем, анализ показал отличие отечественной методики от подходов иностранных норм в части расчета по растянутой арматуре. Дальнейшие исследования показали некоторые неcовершенства нормативной методики расчета по растянутой арматуре (как ненапрягаемой, так и предварительно напряженной). С учетом данных проведенных расчет-но-теоретических исследований, а также в целях гармонизации с основными положениями расчета на усталость, принятого в нормах проектирования ряда ведущих стран, представляется полезным в расчете на усталость по растянутой арматуре наряду с максимальным напряжением в пределах цикла нагрузки учитывать и предельную амплитуду напряжений. В этой связи предполагается проведение актуализации существующей методики расчета на выносливость, которая будет дополнена новыми положениями расчета по растянутой арматуре. При актуализации методики наиболее правильным будет максимально учесть другие положения существующей методики. В частности, будет сохранен прежний подход к определению действующих напряжений в бетоне и арматуре, а также расчет на усталость по сжатому бетону.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Roland Perko ◽  
Manfred Klopschitz ◽  
Alexander Almer ◽  
Peter M. Roth

Many scientific studies deal with person counting and density estimation from single images. Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied for these tasks. Even though often better results are reported, it is often not clear where the improvements are resulting from, and if the proposed approaches would generalize. Thus, the main goal of this paper was to identify the critical aspects of these tasks and to show how these limit state-of-the-art approaches. Based on these findings, we show how to mitigate these limitations. To this end, we implemented a CNN-based baseline approach, which we extended to deal with identified problems. These include the discovery of bias in the reference data sets, ambiguity in ground truth generation, and mismatching of evaluation metrics w.r.t. the training loss function. The experimental results show that our modifications allow for significantly outperforming the baseline in terms of the accuracy of person counts and density estimation. In this way, we get a deeper understanding of CNN-based person density estimation beyond the network architecture. Furthermore, our insights would allow to advance the field of person density estimation in general by highlighting current limitations in the evaluation protocols.


2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (24) ◽  
pp. 3381-3398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Castro ◽  
Kim Branner ◽  
Nikolay Dimitrov

A probabilistic model for estimating the fatigue life of laminated composite materials considering the uncertainty in their mechanical properties is developed. The uncertainty in the material properties is determined from fatigue coupon tests. Based on this uncertainty, probabilistic constant life diagrams are developed which can efficiently estimate probabilistic ɛ-N curves at any load level and stress ratio. The probabilistic ɛ-N curve information is used in a reliability analysis for fatigue limit state proposed for estimating the probability of failure of composite laminates under variable amplitude loading cycles. Fatigue life predictions of unidirectional and multi-directional glass/epoxy laminates are carried out to validate the proposed model against experimental data. The probabilistic fatigue behavior of laminates is analyzed under constant amplitude loading conditions as well as under both repeated block tests and spectral fatigue using the WISPER, WISPERX, and NEW WISPER load sequences for wind turbine blades.


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