Assessment of remaining strength of the pipeline with volumetric type flaw

Abstract

Due to pipelines' medium of transportation is flammable and explosive, or its other characteristics, once the pipeline exist failure, leakage occurs, the rapid diffusion transport medium, encountered the fire will be intense burning, or even an explosion, the consequences are disastrous. In order to prevent the pipeline accidents, adopt appropriate methods to assess the residual strength of the pipe with volumetric type flaw. The force of the pipe with volumetric type flaw based on mechanical behavior, finite element analysis software ABAQUS was applied to simulate defects in pipes, calculating the failure pressure body containing product defect analysis of pipeline, defect length, defect depth and defect width and failure pressure, the maximum allowable flaw size of pipe. According to the size of the pipe with volumetric type flaw to continue to use, buck, repair, replacement scheme selection, in order to ensure the safe transportation of oil and gas pipeline. Show more