Nas plantas industriais dos setores químico e petroquímico observa-se uma grande quantidade de complexas redes de tubulações instaladas, o que se deve basicamente à necessidade de transferir e processar fluídos em diversas condições de pressão e temperatura em suas operações produtivas. Uma indústria petroquímica de médio porte possui entre 3.000 e 15.000 toneladas de tubulações de aço-carbono instaladas, fazendo com que o adequado dimensionamento desse sistema de tubulações adquira grande importância. Este trabalho caracteriza os principais componentes, materiais, condições de projeto e critérios normativos existentes, em especial sob temperaturas elevadas. Realiza uma avaliação comparativa dos métodos de solução estrutural dessas tubulações e analisa criticamente algumas das premissas originais que ainda orientam o seu dimensionamento, visando uma melhor adequação destas. Por fim, juntamente com um estudo de caso, apresenta uma proposta de metodologia de dimensionamento, aplicando o Método dos Elementos Finitos, com o objetivo de aliar mais segurança, otimizar a construção e permitir um projeto mais econômico, diante das grandes quantidades de material envolvidas nessas instalações. / In the chemical and petrochemical plants we can notice a big amount and complexity of pipings installeds, it happens due to the need to transfer and process fluids with differents pressures and temperatures and to get the operational requirements of production. A middle size petrochemical plant has among 3,000 to 15,000 tons of carbon steel pipings assembled so an adjusted sizing of these piping systems is very important. This study presents the main components, materials, design features and existing code procedures, especially under higher temperatures. It makes a comparative valuation about methods of structural solution to pipings and discussing previous concepts applied in the codes to improve these applications. In also, together a case study, presents a proposal of a methodology to sizing of pipings using Finity Element Analyse, with the goal to get a solution more safety, optimized and an economic project, in front of the large quantity of material involved in these installations.

Condition assessment of water distribution pipeline assets has been the focus of water authorities for many years. Transient response analysis, including Inverse Transient Analysis (ITA), provides a new potential method for performing specific nondestructive tests that gives much broader information regarding the condition of pipelines than existing technologies. The basic concept involves inducing a transient in a pipeline and measuring its pressure response. The pressure response is theoretically a function of the condition of the pipeline wall (which is the fundamental characteristic related to the propagation of a transient wavefront) and reflections and damping from any fault that may be present. If an accurate transient model of the pipeline under examination can be developed then it may then be possible to isolate particular parameters in it (relating to the wall thickness of the pipeline or faults such as blockages, air pockets and leaks) and fit these to give optimal matches between the model predicted and measured response of the pipeline. This process is often referred to as inverse analysis (and hence the derivation of the name Inverse Transient Analysis). While a significant amount of numerical and laboratory investigation has been carried out focussing on the use of ITA for leak detection, few field studies have been undertaken. The goal of this research is to determine whether transient response analysis and Inverse Transient Analysis (ITA) can be applied in field situations to provide useful information regarding the condition of pipeline walls and the presence of specific faults such as blockages, air pockets and leaks. Numerous field tests are conducted on large scale transmission pipelines, small scale distribution pipelines and a distribution network in order to obtain a view of the nature of the measured transient responses at each scale and to identify any common characteristics. The capacity of existing transient models to replicate the measured responses is then assessed and they are found to be generally incapable of replicating the field data. Given the physical complexity of field pipelines, and a number of complex phenomena that have been traditionally neglected, this result is not unexpected. The research proposes the development of transient models that can be calibrated to measured responses. These models incorporate mechanisms for including mechanical dispersion and damping and follow precedents developed in other fields of engineering in which damping of transient phenomena is significant. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1325427 / Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2008

Nas plantas industriais dos setores químico e petroquímico observa-se uma grande quantidade de complexas redes de tubulações instaladas, o que se deve basicamente à necessidade de transferir e processar fluídos em diversas condições de pressão e temperatura em suas operações produtivas. Uma indústria petroquímica de médio porte possui entre 3.000 e 15.000 toneladas de tubulações de aço-carbono instaladas, fazendo com que o adequado dimensionamento desse sistema de tubulações adquira grande importância. Este trabalho caracteriza os principais componentes, materiais, condições de projeto e critérios normativos existentes, em especial sob temperaturas elevadas. Realiza uma avaliação comparativa dos métodos de solução estrutural dessas tubulações e analisa criticamente algumas das premissas originais que ainda orientam o seu dimensionamento, visando uma melhor adequação destas. Por fim, juntamente com um estudo de caso, apresenta uma proposta de metodologia de dimensionamento, aplicando o Método dos Elementos Finitos, com o objetivo de aliar mais segurança, otimizar a construção e permitir um projeto mais econômico, diante das grandes quantidades de material envolvidas nessas instalações. / In the chemical and petrochemical plants we can notice a big amount and complexity of pipings installeds, it happens due to the need to transfer and process fluids with differents pressures and temperatures and to get the operational requirements of production. A middle size petrochemical plant has among 3,000 to 15,000 tons of carbon steel pipings assembled so an adjusted sizing of these piping systems is very important. This study presents the main components, materials, design features and existing code procedures, especially under higher temperatures. It makes a comparative valuation about methods of structural solution to pipings and discussing previous concepts applied in the codes to improve these applications. In also, together a case study, presents a proposal of a methodology to sizing of pipings using Finity Element Analyse, with the goal to get a solution more safety, optimized and an economic project, in front of the large quantity of material involved in these installations.

In the field of apparatus engineering and pipeline construction wall thicknesses of 100 mm are processed and joined with heated tool butt welding. The welding procedure is regarded as well-understood. However, there are no systematic experimental investigations into the wall thicknesses above 30 mm published. The welding parameters for high wall thicknesses of PE (polyethylene) and PP (polypropylene) are extrapolated as it is given in the guidelines of DVS (Deutscher Verband für Schweißen und verwandte Verfahren e.V.). However, cases of damage to welded pipelines show that not enough understanding of the process management and the weld properties is available for the welding of large pipe dimensions. The present study investigates the welding behaviour of semi- finished products (plates and pipes) with wall thicknesses up to 100 mm. The mechanical properties are tested in short-term tests and in long-term tensile creep tests. The results relating to the fusion behaviour basically show a curved melt profile which influences the mechanical behaviour of the welded components. The tensile creep tests establish a tendency towards the premature failure of the peripheral regions.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(医学) / 甲第18884号 / 医博第3995号 / 新制||医||1009(附属図書館) / 31835 / 京都大学大学院医学研究科医学専攻 / (主査)教授 三森 経世, 教授 横出 正之, 教授 伊達 洋至 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Medical Science / Kyoto University / DFAM

Yes / A methodical 'design of experiment' approach is used to assess the effect of key control parameters on residual wall thickness (RWT) in Gas Assisted Injection Moulding. An empirical model is produced from which the experimental RWT can be determined at any interpolated point. This model includes only those terms with proven statistical significance. The 'true' thermal boundary conditions are determined for a 1-D approximation to the system, this is sufficient to determine the error in a simulation method that enforces coolant temperature as the mould boundary condition for temperature. It is shown that errors in heat-flux and wall temperature are small. A 3-D finite element, pseudo-concentration implementation is presented, with a novel method for simulation of internal gas injection. The simulation is shown to give good agreement with the experimental rate of growth of wall thickness as gas delay is increased; good qualitative agreement is shown for other control parameters.

The gas assisted injection moulding process is an important extension to conventional injection moulding. Gas assist can be applied in a number of ways, but here the penetration of a gas bubble through the polymer melt is of interest. A 3D fi nite element implementation of a pseudo concentration method is employed to simulate the primary penetration of the gas bubble. The wall thickness prediction is an important result since the extent of bubble penetration is sensitive to the remaining melt fraction. A number of methods for experimental measurement are developed to measure characteristics of the gas assisted injection moulding process dynamics and product. Key process variables, on an industrial gas-assist machine, were measured and analysed, leading to an empirical model for wall thickness prediction. Gas delay time and injection velocity are shown to be most influential in controlling residual wall thickness. Simulation results are evaluated against the empirical model. The trends observed, for simulation and experiment, in wall thickness after changes in process variable settings are found to agree qualitatively. The wall thickness prediction is found to be within 10% of the experimentally obtained measurements. / EPSRC

Rapid Prototyped part failure constitutes a major issue for both RP providers and customers. When parts fail the reputation of the vendor is heavily deteriorated, customer dissatisfaction increase and replacement of the broken parts is often necessary to avoid the loss of future business. Product design teams often run into situations where Rapid Prototyped parts are not able to withstand shipping and handling and delivered broken or while demonstrating and examining the parts. When done in the face of customers this builds a perception of poor quality and lack of aptitude on the design group as well as the RP processes. The rapid advance of the RP industry and technology has led users to employ RP parts for structural applications where the need to understand in great detail and accuracy the mechanical behavior of the product and its individual components is greater than ever. Models built on Rapid Prototyping (RP) equipment are most often made from polymers which frequently have mechanical properties that are inferior to those manufactured by traditional methods such as thermoforming or injection molding. Not only are the mechanical properties of RP models typically low, they are usually, at least in thin sections, directly dependent on the section or wall thickness of the models. This dependence of strength on wall thickness makes it difficult to predict a proper wall thickness for RP models, even when nominal values of material strength are known. The purpose of this work is to present and compare measured values of tensile strength and stiffness as a function of wall thickness for three RP processes and materials. These properties will assist designers estimating adequate minimum wall thicknesses for models built by the three processes. The three RP technologies included in the scope of this research are: Z Corporation (powder with polymer binder layup), Fuse Deposition Modeling and PolyJet Layup (Objet). The findings of this study establish that tensile strength and stiffness values are dependent upon wall thickness, building orientation and direction of the applied force of specimens created with the methods in consideration. It was also determined that the correlation between thickness and strength for all processes is non-linear. Due to these results a single tensile strength and modulus value for each material and all wall thicknesses do not accurately represent their behavior. However, these results will allow a designer to understand the relationship between the wall thickness and using the data provided in this work be able to model and then fabricate adequate 3D prototypes.

Aim of the diploma thesis is to design intake ducting with variable cross-section for 16V diesel engine consisting from divided intake manifold and divided ejector. Cross-section variability is ensured by a swirl flap placed in the divided ejector. Next aim of thesis is to provide drawing documentation for production of samples. For designing was used PTC Creo system and software GeomCaliper. Also was taken account of manufacturing of the parts with sand-casting, especially to guarantee trouble-free taking out of models from the moulds, and taking out of cores from core moulds, and also for machinability of some elements. Introduction of thesis is focused on diesel engine emissions and ways of their reduction.

The problem of the formation of the beaded pipe ends by reduction described in this work. Patent and literature review ways to reduce the longitudinal varying wall thickness is made. Technology for the production of pipes for pipe-rolling plant is shown. An improved method for calculating changes in wall thickness of the pipe in the reducing mill developed. Mode calculation thinning ends of the pipe before the reducing mill is made. / В данной работе описана проблема образования утолщенных концов труб при редуцировании. Выполнен патентно-литературный обзор способов снижения продольной разностенности при редуцировании труб. Приведена технология производства труб на ТПА-80. Разработана усовершенствованная методика расчета изменения толщины стенки трубы в редукционном стане. Выполнен расчет режима утонения концов труб перед редукционным станом.