• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.403-406
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• 2002

가정용 및 산업용으로 사용되고 있는 천연가스는 70kg/cm1의 압력으로 지하에 매설되어 있는 API 5L X65재질의 배관을 통하여 공급되고 있다 생산기지에서 공급되는 압력이 70kg1cmr이지만 가스소비량에 따라 계절별 및 월별 가스 내압이 변화되고 있다. 하루에도 최대 2회정도 주기적으로 변화를 보이고 있다. 본 연구에서는 API 5L X65등급의 가스배관 모재 및 용접부에 일정한 형태의 가우지 결함을 가공하여 현재 사용중인 내압 조건과 유사한 내압변화를 재현하여 피로수명을 평가하였다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.808-813
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• 2005

Structural integrity assessment of defected pipe is important in fitness for service evaluation and proper engineering assessment is needed to determine whether pipelines are still fit for service. This paper present a failure prediction of gas pipes made of APIl X65 steel with gouge using stress-modified true fracture strain, which is regarded as a criterion of ductile fracture. For this purpose, API X65 pipes with gouge are simulated using elastic-plastic FE analyses with the proposed ductile failure criterion and the resulting burst pressures are compared with experimental data. Agreements are quite good, which gives confidence in the use of the proposed criteria to defect assessment fer gas pipelines. Then, further extensive finite element analyses are performed to obtain the burst pressure solution of pipes with gouge as a function of defect depth, length and pipeline geometry.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.20-26
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• 2009

The dominant incidents category for onshore and offshore natural gas transmission pipelines in the world is associated with outside forces. Incidents in the outside forces category embrace acts of nature, which typically cause widespread structural damage, as well as act of man, whose effects tend to cause dents and/or gouges localized at point of contact that are referred to as mechanical damage. Therefore, these damage types must be better addressed to avoid unnecessary and costly repairs and the possibility of catastrophic events. First of all, the characterizing features of mechanical damage in gas pipelines were evaluated by using of excavator or boring machine. There is no reliable method for evaluating the safe operating pressure of pipeline affected by mechanical damage. It is especially important to evaluate the remaining strength of damaged pipelines due to outside force. Therefore, the full scale burst tests were conducted to evaluate the remaining strength of pipe with mechanical damage that combines a dent and a gouge. This paper is supposed to provide information that will assist in developing a criterion to assess serviceability in pipelines with mechanical damage.