Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
787593 International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping 2008 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

The failure pressure of pipe with wall thinning was investigated by using three-dimensional elastic–plastic finite element analyses (FEA). With careful modeling of the pipe and flaw geometry in addition to a proper stress–strain relation of the material, FEA could estimate the precise burst pressure obtained by the tests. FEA was conducted by assuming three kinds of materials: line pipe steel, carbon steel, and stainless steel. The failure pressure obtained using line pipe steel was the lowest under the same flaw size condition, when the failure pressure was normalized by the value of unflawed pipe defined using the flow stress. On the other hand, when the failure pressure was normalized by the results of FEA obtained for unflawed pipe under various flaw and pipe configurations, the failure pressures of carbon steel and line pipe steel were almost the same and lower than that of stainless steel. This suggests that the existing assessment criteria developed for line pipe steel can be applied to make a conservative assessment of carbon steel and stainless steel.

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