Experimental and Numerical Research on a Pipe Element Passing through Bulkhead with Symmetrical Elastic Installation

Abstract

To reduce the transmission of vibration energy from the ship’s pipeline to the bulkhead, a novel all-metal pipe element passing through the bulkhead with symmetrical elastic installation was proposed in this paper. A metal bellow, a multi-layer thin-walled symmetrical structure, was used as an elastic element and entangled metallic wire materials (EMWM) were used as a damping element. The insertion loss was adopted to evaluate the vibration damping performance. The results show that compared with the pipe element passing through the bulkhead with rigid installation, the vibration damping performance of the pipe element passing through bulkhead with symmetrical elastic installation can significantly isolate the vibration transition, and the maximum average insertion loss in each direction can reach 25.4 dB. A thermal-vibration joint test system of the pipe element passing through the bulkhead was built. A series of comparison experiments were carried out to investigate the influence of temperature, symmetrical measure points, and exciting directions on the vibration response transmitted to the bulkhead. Therefore, the vibration damping performance was verified.

Keywords

• metal bellows
• entangled metallic wire materials
• damping performance
• vibration