Open AccessA Simulation Technology for a Full Cycle of Steel Line Pipe Manufacturing Operations
Author(s) -
Vladimir V. Aleshin,
Viacheslav V. Kobyakov,
Vadim E. Seleznev
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advances in mechanical engineering/advances in mechanical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.318
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1687-8140
pISSN - 1687-8132
DOI - 10.1155/2011/765739
Subject(s) - software , finite element method , mechanical engineering , welding , process (computing) , engineering , mill , line (geometry) , numerical analysis , weld line , manufacturing engineering , computer science , engineering drawing , structural engineering , mathematics , mathematical analysis , programming language , operating system , geometry
At present day, pipe mill engineers have to deal with challenging technological problems of heavy-wall and high-strength line pipe manufacturing. Numerical analysis of welded large-diameter pipe manufacturing stages is the most efficient way to solve these problems. Corresponding computational technologies and applied software were developed at Physical & Technical Center. Numerical structural analysis of steel plates at various stages of line pipe manufacturing is performed by the finite element method, accounting for geometric and material nonlinearities. The only thing to be done by the engineer in such analysis is to specify required input parameters. All the further process is software controlled. The discrepancy between the numerical analysis results and measured data in the overwhelming majority cases did not exceed 1%