Evaluation of serviceability and residual life of the critical welded structures with found defect, including pipelines and pressure vessels, assumes a complex analysis of interrelated multidimensional processes, influencing their bearing capacity. At that, grounded reduction of conservatism of such an evaluation is rational that requires description of structure limiting state considering main fracture mechanisms. In particular, ductile fracture is a main mechanism of development of material damage in the main pipelines with typical surface defects of local corrosion wall thinning without accompanying sharp concentrators. Complex methodology for numerical analysis of processes of nucleation and development of ductile fracture pores of metal welded structures as well as criteria for determination of their limiting state was developed in the scope of present work. Thus, a procedure for calculation of stress-strain state in-service structure considering change of load-carrying net-section of structure areas at microporosity growth was build on the basis of Gurson-Tvergaard model. The criteria of pore nucleation as well as mathematical description of different mechanisms of their development depending on character of external force action were proposed for non-isothermal metal state, in particular, in the process of welding heating. Application of the developed approaches was shown on the example of analysis of limiting state of main pipeline element with local wall thinning defect in area of circumferential site weld. It is shown that limiting internal pressure in the pipeline with such service damage is determined by character of interaction of local stresses in zone of the weld and geometrical anomaly, i.e. the lower is the distance between them, the less is the loading necessary for formation of common zone of microdamage in which the macrodefects are formed as a consequence. Similarly, significant effect of pores on the bearing capacity in pipeline site weld is shown. Generality of the developed approaches of numerical analysis of ductile fracture processes allows applying them for evaluation of limiting state and residual life of the welded pressure vessels from high-strength steels.
Modelling of processes of nucleation and development of ductile fracture pores in welded structures
The Paton Welding Journal ; 9 ; 24-29
2013
6 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 18 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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