Failure Strength Assessment of Pipes With Local Wall Thinning Under Combined Loading Based on Finite Element Analyses
Author:
Shim Do-Jun1, Choi Jae-Boong1, Kim Young-Jin1
Affiliation:
1. SAFE Research Center, School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Kyonggi-do 440-746, Korea
Abstract
Failure assessment of a pipe with local wall thinning draws increasing attention in the nuclear power plant industry. Although many guidelines have been developed and are used for assessing the integrity of a wall-thinned pipeline, most of these guidelines consider only pressure loading and thus neglect bending loading. As most pipelines in nuclear power plants are subjected to internal pressure and bending moment, an assessment procedure for locally wall-thinned pipeline subjected to combined loading is urgently needed. In this paper, three-dimensional finite element (FE) analyses are carried out to simulate full-scale pipe tests conducted for various shapes of wall-thinned area under internal pressure and bending moment. Maximum moments based on ultimate tensile stress were obtained from FE results to predict the failure of the pipe. These results are compared with test results, showing good agreement. Additional finite element analyses are then performed to investigate the effect of key parameters, such as wall-thinned depth, wall-thinned angle and wall-thinned length, on maximum moment. Moreover, the effect of internal pressure on maximum moment was investigated. Change of internal pressure did not show significant effect on the maximum moment.
Publisher
ASME International
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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