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Evaluation on Failure Characteristics of the Local Wall Thinning Elbows Using Three Dimensional Finite Element Analysis  

김태순 (한전전력연구원 원자력연구실)
박치용 (한전전력연구원 원자력연구실)
김진원 (조선대학교 원자력공학과)
박재학 (충북대학교 안전공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Safety / v.18, no.3, 2003 , pp. 39-45 More about this Journal
Abstract
The failure mode of a pipe due to local wall thinning is increasingly more attention in the nuclear power plant industry. To assess the integrity of locally wall thinned pipe, it is necessary to perform many simulations under various conditions. Because the modeling for locally wall thinned elbow is more complicated than that of straight pipe the efficient modeling method for finite element analysis is necessary. In this study, the more simple efficient modeling method of three-dimensional finite element analysis for locally wall thinned elbow has been suggested and verified. And using the method, the failure mode of local wall thinned elbows that have different thinning lengths and circumferential angles is evaluated. From the results, we concluded that the collapse load of elbows has been decreased by the increase of wall thinning shape factors such as thinning lengths and circumferential angles.
Keywords
wall thinned elbow; flow accelerated corrosion; finite element analysis; collapse load;
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