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Hydraulic pressure testing of composite gas cylinders damages the cylinders, but provides very limited information. For this reason, the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing (BAM) demands the assessment of the safety of design types for retest periods of more than three years by employing destructive testing of small samples.
This gives insight in properties not quantified by current standards.
Depending on the cycle fatigue behaviour of the individual design type either cycle tests or slow burst tests are employed. In this paper methods are introduced for a statistical assessment of sample results of both test methods. This includes gathering the average and load cycle burst strength, and the scatter of a sample as well as analysing and plotting them as a pair of values. Each pair of values representing a sample can be assessed approximately regarding its survival rate in service, if the introduced performance charts are employed.
The current practice of periodic retesting of composite pressure receptacles primarily based on the hydraulic pressure test has to be evaluated as critical.
This is justified by micro damages caused to the specimen by the test
itself and by a lack of informative values. Thus, BAM Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing uses a new validation approach in the case of retest periods of more than 5 years. It enables the description of the condition of a specific design type series based on destructive tests parallel to operation. With respect to this approach it is explained how the statistical evaluation of sample tests and their extrapolation to end of life or at least to the time of next retesting can be achieved. In addition, it is explained how the reliability limits may be linked to the size and pressure level of the respective composite pressure receptacle. The frame of this safety Approach includes the influence of the maximum working pressure on the safety assessment.
One topic of this approach is the introduction of the working diagram
essential for safety assessments that allows graphical evaluation of load cycle strength by mean value, scatter and survival rate of samples as well as instruction how to use it. For this, it is explained how the number of filling cycles and the reduction of the respective hydraulic residual cycle strength interacts with the newly introduced value of specific filling sensitivity.