Fatigue Life Calculation of Tubing for In Situ Drilling Rig

Abstract

The severe bending strain that the tubing of the in-situ drilling rig is subjected to during the operation under pressure, which exceeds the elastic limit, will cause periodic plastic deformation of the tubing of the in-situ drilling rig, so that fatigue cracks will occur on the internal and external surfaces of the tubing of the in-situ drilling rig and expand rapidly, leading to the greatly shortened service life of the tubing of the in-situ drilling rig. Based on the stress analysis of the dangerous points of the tubing of the in-situ drilling rig, the relationship between the predicted and the standard measured tubing life of the in-situ drilling rig is obtained in this paper. The number of tubing cycles of in-situ drilling rig decreases sharply with the increase of internal pressure. The greater the internal pressure is, the greater the circumferential stress and uniaxial alternating stress are, which causes the number of tubing cycles of in-situ drilling rig to decrease when tubing fails. It shows that the fatigue life of tubing of in-situ drilling rig is significantly affected by internal pressure.