Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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791057 | International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
This paper discusses the plastic limit pressure of elbows without defects and with local thinned area in the extrados. Finite element analysis (FEA) and experiments have been used. The results of FEA show that the limit load of elbows under internal pressure increases with increasing wall thickness and bend radius of the elbow. The results are consistent with the calculated results by the Goodall formula, the maximum error is 6.58%. By data fitting of FEA, an empirical formula for the limit load of elbows with local thinned area in the extrados has been proposed, which is validated by experiments.
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Authors
Zhi-Xiang Duan, Shi-Ming Shen,