Stress Calculations Adopted Finite Element Method of Pressure Steam Pipeline Containing Defects

Abstract

The stress behavior of defects is the key factor in the safety assessment of pressure steam pipeline containing defects. For achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, high-parameter pressure steam pipelines are widely designed in the recent years. It makes the safety assessment based on defect stresses become significantly important. A combined FEA method of stress calculations was proposed in the present study for calculating film stress and bend stress of defects located in a pressure steam pipeline from a certain power plant. An efficient program code with graphical user interface was designed to automatically generate FEA models of defect part pipelines. It is truly an innovative highlight of the present work attributed to convenient operation and outstanding efficiency. This paper provides an available way to obtain the stress state of defects in the safety assessment of pressure steam pipeline containing defects.

Keywords

• pressure steam pipeline
• large-scale defects
• stress state
• structural integrity