Research on physical explosion crater model of high-pressure natural gas pipeline

Abstract

In this study, Hypermesh and LS-DYNA numerical simulation software are used to build a multi domain coupling model of natural gas pipeline, including soil, pipeline, TNT explosive and air domain, and the non-reflection boundary conditions are set for the model. The TNT equivalent method is used to convert the physical explosion amount of natural gas pipeline into 1387.38 kg TNT explosive amount. The simulation results show that the physical explosion of pipeline forms an approximate elliptical crater with a width of 12.68 m and a depth of 4.12 m; the TNT equivalent of the model is corrected by comparing the crater simulation value and the size value of the crater calculated by the PRCI empirical formula under the same laying condition, and the correction coefficient is selected as 0.9, and the corrected TNT equivalent is 1248.64 kg; the modified model crater size is 3.72 m deep and 12.66 m wide, compared with the crater size obtained from the field test, the error of crater depth and width calculated by the modified model simulation is 5.7% and 15.5% respectively.

Keywords

• High-pressure natural gas
• Pipeline
• Physical explosion
• Crater
• Numerical simulation