Residual bending capacity for pipelines with corrosion defects |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia;2. Rajani Consultants Inc., 2024 Glenfern Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1J 6G8, Canada;1. State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Simulation and Safety, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China;2. School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China;3. Research Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures & Materials, ASE, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA |
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Abstract: | Residual bending capacity for corroded pipelines in the presence of axial force and internal pressure can be determined analytically assuming a full plastic failure mode for the pipeline. In this paper, a set of closed-form analytical solutions for residual bending capacity are developed for pipelines with idealized corrosion geometries, namely, constant-depth, elliptical, and parabolic corrosions. It is shown that pipelines with idealized elliptical or parabolic corrosion yield higher bending resistance than that of constant-depth, with the difference between elliptical or parabolic corrosion particularly significant for the case of deep and wide corrosion. It is further pointed out that the simplification of the actual corrosion geometry by constant-depth, as commonly assumed in current code assessment of corroded pipelines, will inevitably underestimate the residual strength of the pipe, especially for the case of deep and wide corrosion. Finally, the experimentally measured bending moment is adopted to validate the proposed analytical solutions in this paper. |
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Keywords: | Residual bending capacity Corroded pipeline Constant-depth corrosion Elliptical corrosion Parabolic corrosion |
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