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Differential transform method and Adomian decomposition method for free vibration analysis of fluid conveying Timoshenko pipeline

  • Bozyigit, Baran;Yesilce, Yusuf;Catal, Seval
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.62 no.1
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    • pp.65-77
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    • 2017
  • The free vibration analysis of fluid conveying Timoshenko pipeline with different boundary conditions using Differential Transform Method (DTM) and Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) has not been investigated by any of the studies in open literature so far. Natural frequencies, modes and critical fluid velocity of the pipelines on different supports are analyzed based on Timoshenko model by using DTM and ADM in this study. At first, the governing differential equations of motion of fluid conveying Timoshenko pipeline in free vibration are derived. Parameter for the nondimensionalized multiplication factor for the fluid velocity is incorporated into the equations of motion in order to investigate its effects on the natural frequencies. For solution, the terms are found directly from the analytical solution of the differential equation that describes the deformations of the cross-section according to Timoshenko beam theory. After the analytical solution, the efficient and easy mathematical techniques called DTM and ADM are used to solve the governing differential equations of the motion, respectively. The calculated natural frequencies of fluid conveying Timoshenko pipelines with various combinations of boundary conditions using DTM and ADM are tabulated in several tables and figures and are compared with the results of Analytical Method (ANM) where a very good agreement is observed. Finally, the critical fluid velocities are calculated for different boundary conditions and the first five mode shapes are presented in graphs.

Computational Analysis of Structural Behavior of Subsea Pipelines with Local Corrosion (국부 부식을 가지는 심해저 파이프라인의 구조응답에 대한 전산 해석적 연구)

  • Choi, Kwang-Ho;Lee, Chi-Seung;Ryu, Dong-Man;Koo, Bon-Yong;Song, Joon-Kyu;Lee, Jae-Myung
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.100-110
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    • 2015
  • To meet the increasing demand for energy around the world, offshore and subsea energy development is constantly being conducted. This trend is accompanied by an increasing demand for pipeline installation, which brings numerous problems, including those related to accessibility, high pressure, and corrosion. Among these, corrosion is a primary factor in pipeline fractures, and can cause severe environmental and industrial damage. Hence, accurate corrosion assessment for corroded pipelines is very important. For this reason, the present study investigated the mechanical behavior of an idealized corroded subsea pipeline with an internal/external pressure load using the commercial FEA code ABAQUS. Then, the analysis result was compared with corrosion assessment codes such as ASME B31G, DNV RP F101, ABS. Finally, a fitness-for-service assessment was conducted.

Multi-Body Contact Analysis and Structural Design Optimization of Bend Restrictors for Subsea Pipelines (심해저 파이프라인과 굽힘 제한 장치의 다중물체 접촉 해석을 통한 구조 최적설계)

  • Noh, Jungmin;Ha, Youn Doh
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.289-296
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    • 2018
  • The offshore subsea platforms are connected to subsea pipelines to transport gas/oil from wells. The pipe is a multilayered structure of polymer and steel for compensating both flexibility and strength. The pipe also requires reinforcement structures to endure the extreme environmental conditions. A vertebrae structure of bend restrictors is one of the reinforcement structures installed to protect the subsea pipe from excessive bending deformations. In this study, structural behaviors of the subsea pipeline with bend restrictors are investigated by the multi-body contact analysis in Abaqus 6.14-2. Contact forces of each bend restrictor extracted from the multi-body contact analysis can be boundary conditions for topology design optimization in Altair Hyperworks 13.0 Hypermesh-Optistruct. Multiple design constraints are considered to obtain a manufacturable design with efficient material usage. Through the multi-body contact analysis with optimized bend restrictors, it is confirmed that the bending performance of the optimized design is enhanced.

Proposed OHTC Formula for Subsea Pipelines Considering Thermal Conductivities of Multi-Layered Soils (다층 지반의 열전도율을 고려한 해저배관의 총괄열전달계수식 제안)

  • Park, Dong-Su;Shin, Mun-Beom;Seo, Young-Kyo
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.84-94
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    • 2018
  • Subsea pipelines are designed to transport mixtures of oil, gas, and their associated impurities from a wellhead that can be in excess of approximately $100^{\circ}C$, while the external temperature may be approximately $5^{\circ}C$. Heat can be lost from a subsea pipeline containing a high-temperature fluid to the surrounding environment. It is important that the pipeline be designed to ensure that the heat loss is small enough to maintain sufficient flow from the unwanted deposition of hydrate and wax, which occurs at a critical temperature of about $40^{\circ}C$. Therefore, it is essential to estimate the heat loss of a subsea pipeline in various circumstances. In previous studies, overall heat transfer coefficient(OHTC) formulas were considered only for a single soil type. Thus, it is difficult to characterize the OHTC of the actual seabed with multiple soil layers. In this paper, an OHTC formula that considers multi-layered soils is proposed for more precise OHTC estimation.

Acoustical analysis and signal processing for leak location of buried pipes (지하매설 배관의 누수지점 탐지를 위한 음향학적 해석 및 신호처리)

  • Lee Young-Sup;Yoon Dong-Jin;Baek Kwang-Hyun;Kim Sang-Moo
    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • spring
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    • pp.225-230
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    • 2004
  • Leak noise is a good source to identify the exact location of a leak point of underground water pipelines. Water leak generates broadband noise from a leak location and can be propagated to both directions of water pipes. However, the necessity of long-range detect ion of this leak location makes to identify low-frequency acoustic waves rather than high frequency ones. Acoustic wave propagation coupled with surrounding boundaries including cast iron pipes is theoretical analyzed and the wave velocity was confirmed with experiment The leak locations were identified both by the acoustic emission (AE) method and the cross-correlation method. In a short-range distance, both the AE method and cross-correlation method are effective to detect leak position. However, the detect ion for a long-range distance required a lower frequency range accelerometers only because higher frequency waves were attenuated very quickly with the increase of propagation paths. Two algorithms for the cross-correlation function were suggested and a long-range detection has been achieved at real underground water pipelines longer than 300m.

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Technical and Economic Assessment of CO2 Transportation Options for Large-scale Integrated Carbon Capture & Sequestration(CCS) Project in South Korea

  • Lee, Ji Hyun;Kim, Beom-Ju;Kwak, No Sang;Shim, Jae-Goo;Shin, Su Hyun;Hwang, Sun-Na;Lee, Jung-Hyun
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2017
  • In order to examine the feasibility of Carbon Capture & Sequestration, a major technological strategy for the national goal of greenhouse gas reduction, this paper studies the various methods and corresponding costs for the transportation of $CO_2$ captured at the domestic thermal power plants, as well as performing comparative analysis with overseas CCS demonstration projects. It is predicted that the investment cost would be about 98 million USD when the using land-based pipelines to transport captured $CO_2$ from the thermal power plant located in the south coast. And using marine-based offshore pipelines, it will cost about twice the amount. When the captured $CO_2$ is transported from the power plant in the west coast instead, the cost is expected to increase substantially due to the transportation distance to the storage site being more than double to that of the south coast power plant case.

Raster Pipeline Implementation based on 3D Graphics Geometry Pipelines (3차원 그래픽스 기하 파이프라인 기반의 래스터 파이프라인 구현)

  • Baek, Nakhoon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.8
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2013
  • Raster operations are widely used to display full-color graphics images (or pixmaps) and single-color images (or bitmaps). These features are strongly needed for image processing applications and font output. However, current mobile graphics platforms, including OpenGL ES hardware implementations, do not directly support these features. To fully support those raster operations on the mobile graphics platforms, we interpreted the graphics images as a set of 3D points, and processed those 3D points through the typical 3D geometry pipelines, in a full-software implementation. Our implementation shows sufficient execution speeds, and passed the official conformance tests to show its correctness.

Characteristics of Structural Behavior of Unplasticized Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC-U) Pipe Buried Underground (지중매설 경질폴리염화비닐관의 구조적 거동)

  • Kim, Sun-Hee;Cheon, Jinuk;Kim, Eung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Advanced Composite Structures
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.16-23
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    • 2015
  • The industrialization and urbanization forced to increase the density of pipelines such as water supply, sewers, and gas pipelines. The materials used for the existing pipe lines are mostly composed of concretes and steels, but it is true that the development for more durable and efficient materials has been continued performed to produce long lasting pipe lines. Recently, underground pipes serve in diverse applications such as sewer lines, drain lines, water mains, gas lines, telephone and electrical conduits, culverts, oil lines, etc. In this paper, we present the result of investigation pertaining to the structural behavior of unplasticized polyvinyl chloride (PVC-U) flexible pipes buried underground. In the investigation of structural behavior such as a ring deflection, pipe stiffness, 4-point bending test, experimental and analytical studies are conducted. In addition, pipe stiffness is determined by the parallel plate loading tests and the finite element analysis. The difference between test and analysis is about 8% although there are significant variations in the mechanical properties of the pipe material. In addition, it was found by the 4-point bending test there is no problem in the connection between the pipes by coupler.

Laboratory Loading Test of Light-Weight Prefabricated Plastic Foundation for Sewage Pipe Line (하수관거용 플라스틱 조립식 경량기초의 하중재하실험)

  • Lee, Dong-Hang;Lee, Kwan-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.2757-2762
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    • 2012
  • Sewage pipelines are one of important infra-structures. The main reasons of sewage pipelint failure are improper backfill materials and compaction controls in field. Especially, it is very difficult to compact the lower part of circula pipelines. In order to overcome these problems, the prefabricated light-weight plastic foundation was developed. Couple of load-displacement tests were carried out to get the characteristic of failure. From the limited laboratory loading tests, the use of prefabricated light-weight plastic foundation is an alternative to solve the difficulty of backfill materials and compaction control.

The Study on the AC Interference of High Power Cable on Underground Gas Pipeline (전력케이블과 가스배관의 병행구간에 대한 교류부식 영향 검토 연구)

  • Bae, J.H.;Kim, D.K.;Ha, T.H.;Lee, H.G.;Kwak, B.M.;Lim, C.J.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.07a
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    • pp.470-473
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    • 2000
  • Because of the continuous growth of energy consumption, and also the tendency to site power lines and pipelines along the same routes, the close proximity of high voltage structures and metallic pipelines has become more and more frequent. Moreover, normal steady state and fault currents become higher as electric networks increase in size and power. Therefore, there has been and still is a growing concern (safety of people marking contact with pipeline, risk of damage to the pipeline coating, the metal and equipment connected to pipeline. especially cathodic protection system) about possible hazards resulting from the influence of high voltage power system on metallic structures(gas pipeline, oil pipeline and water pipeline etc.). Therefore, we analyze the interference problems when the gas pipeline is buried with power cable in the same submarine tunnel. This paper present the results of the study about interference mechanism, AC corrosion, limitation of safety voltage and analysis of indiction voltage.

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