Design of an Experimental Device for Simulation of Pipeline Expansion

Abstract

This article describes the design of an experimental device for simulating pipe expansion. The device consisted of various variants of compensating elements and types of piping materials. Based on this, a 3D model was developed, together with numerical design calculations of compensators. Subsequently, a more complex analysis was performed by using the CAE Pipe calculation program, which performed calculations of dilatations, forces at fixed points and stresses in the pipeline.