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Plant and process safety are very important within the daily business not only in industry. Within its 6th edition complete analysis of design, operational, and management causes of process plant accidents and disasters are collected by Paul Amyotte basing on Trevor Kletz's legacy. Examples shall help readers in understanding what went wrong, why it went wrong and how to avoid similar tragedies without having to experience the loss incurred by others and themselves. Each main part ends with an opportunity for reflection to recall the lessons learned from the examples shown.
This collection of, unfortunately, spectacular failure cases fulfills its intension of being the ultimate resource of experienced‐based analysis and guidance for safety and loss prevention professionals. Everyone who is dealing with process and/or plant safety shall have taken at least a look into this book.
This edition, published as first issue within the series “Corrosion Atlas”, provides 181 corrosion case studies, collected from 29 contributors.
These Corrosion Atlas Case Studies provide a helpful tool required for engineers in their daily life to quickly determine and solve their equipment's corrosion problems by compact theoretical background and vivid examples. It fulfills the intension of the editors to be “the first centralized collection of case studies containing challenges paired directly with solutions together in one location”.
The purpose of this research is to predict failure of a largely deformed pressure vessel. The employed Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman (GTN) model enables a failure prediction through its in-built damage evolution law. A critical damage threshold defines the limit state of the evolution. Here, crack initiation is seen as the limit. Unfortunately, the GTN model does not capture void volume growth under shear stress and shows thermodynamic inconsistencies under pressure. To overcome these drawbacks and to make the model applicable to a wide range of complex stress states, a user-defined subroutine of the GTN model with an extension of its damage evolution law has been developed. The routine also accounts for large deformation which is advantageous for ductile vessel materials. The wall of a pressurised vessel is subjected to multi-axial stress states. Features, such as anges and valves, lead to even more complex stress states. The subroutine is used to determine the burst pressure and the location of failure. This research compares the results of the conventional and the modified GTN model with results of experimentally conducted burst tests. The conclusion of this research is that there is a clear improvement in failure prediction by using the modified GTN model.
At present, Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) operating in onshore and offshore wind farms are primary sources of renewable energy around the world. Cylindrical grouted sleeve connections are usually adopted in these WTG structures to connect the upper structure and foundation for ease of installation. These structures including grouted connections experience considerable adverse loading during their lifetimes. Settlements were reported inside similar connections used in energy structures especially oil and gas platforms, which were installed in last three decades. Thus, repair and rehabilitation of such connections in existing wind structures should also be planned ahead to keep them operating in the future. The nature of failure and crack generation in grouted connections are crucial prior to adopt a strengthening strategy. This pilot study is carried out to actualize the failure mechanism in the grouted connection, when subjected to axial loading. A novel reusable scaled cylindrical grouted connection with shear keys was designed and tested for its load bearing behaviour. The mechanical test was accompanied by classical measuring techniques (e.g. displacement transducer) as well as non-destructive measuring techniques (e.g. digital image correlation (DIC), acoustic emission analysis (AE)). The failure mechanism incorporating slippage of the shear keys and cracking of the grout was investigated. The capacity and applicability of such test mould were also discussed. The knowledge is expected to pave way towards repair of deteriorated grouted connections with similar geometry and failure pattern.
At present, Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) operating in onshore and offshore wind farms are primary sources of renewable energy around the world. Cylindrical grouted sleeve connections are usually adopted in these WTG structures to connect the upper structure and foundation for ease of installation. These structures including grouted connections experience considerable adverse loading during their lifetimes. Settlements were reported inside similar connections used in energy structures especially oil and gas platforms, which were installed in last three decades. Thus, repair and rehabilitation of such connections in existing wind structures should also be planned ahead to keep them operating in the future. The nature of failure and crack generation in grouted connections are crucial prior to adopt a strengthening strategy. This pilot study is carried out to actualize the failure mechanism in the grouted connection, when subjected to axial loading. A novel reusable scaled cylindrical grouted connection with shear keys was designed and tested for its load bearing behaviour. The mechanical test was accompanied by classical measuring techniques (e.g. displacement transducer) as well as non-destructive measuring techniques (e.g. digital image correlation (DIC), acoustic emission analysis (AE)). The failure mechanism incorporating slippage of the shear keys and cracking of the grout was investigated. The capacity and applicability of such test mould were also discussed. The knowledge is expected to pave way towards repair of deteriorated grouted connections with similar geometry and failure pattern.
The failure of composites is initiated by imperfections on microscale. The interface between fiber and matrix is a key parameter concerning failure initiation. In order to get an improved understanding of local failure processes a fracture mechanical analysis of interfacial failure in a composite ply under transverse stresses is performed. The mixed mode energy release rate is calculated. In addition the failure of interfaces under cyclic loading is studied on a single fiber model. The quasistatic debonding process is compared with the interfacial failure under fatigue loading. It is shown that the tan delta can be used as an indicator for the damage propagation.
In addition to constructional requirements in civil engineering stainless steels often have to fulfil high visual demands. Unexpected impairments of the visual appearance of stainless steels under low corrosive conditions are a widespread problem today. Frequently it is supposed that this is caused by changes in the alloy composition, worse environmental conditions or improper handling. Within a research project the systematic investigation of several cases of damaged stainless steel bars has shown that the reasons are based on well-known material defects like chemical inhomogeneities (e.g. precipitations or local carburization) or geometrical defects (e.g. undercuts, rolling defects or shell formation). Thus, the failures could be clearly identified as production failures of the respective semi-finished products.