Affiliation:
1. Oil and gas Department, College of Engineering, University of Thi-Qar, Iraq
2. Department of Engineering projects, University of Thi-Qar.
Abstract
Due to the dangerous alarm for many engineering applications such as energy generating systems and pipelines transporting oil, gas and its derivatives under high-pressure, a study of the effect of thermal and mechanical loading on the cracked materials and pipes at high-temperature environments is required. In this work, the influence of the thermal loadings on stresses analysis of pressurized and cracked pressurized pipes has been solved numerically where the mode I crack's type has been considered. The modeling process mainly aims to find the stress intensity factor, J-integral calculations and the stress distributions. The accuracy of the results has been compared with analytical solutions of a pressurized cylinder. The mesh around the crack have been modeled in a careful way to obtain accurate stress distributions. It was found that the surface’s temperature has a significant effect on stress distributions, for example, the stresses increased by 50% with increasing the temperature differences between the inner and outer pipe’s diameter. Additionally, the stress intensity factor and the J-integrals values were calculated for different crack length ratios and temperature differences. It is found at the crack length ratio of 0.6 the stress intensity factors increased up to 50% from 45 to 76 and J-integral increased by 77% from 250 kN/m to 430 kN/m. Also, the influence of fluid’s temperature investigated, and the result showed that by increasing the fluid’s temperature without cracks, the stresses decreased by 33%. Also, it was found that for different crack length ratios the J-integral and stress intensity reduces when the fluid’s temperature increases.
Publisher
Oriental Scientific Publishing Company
Subject
Drug Discovery,Environmental Chemistry,Biochemistry,General Chemistry
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