Analysis on Thermal Mechanical Coupling of Buried Thermal Pipeline Based on ADINA

Abstract

High temperature medium in the thermal pipeline will affect distortion and stress distribution of the pipe wall, so its very important to analyze the thermal mechanical coupling in thermal pipeline. Numerical simulation of buried thermal pipeline damage under the earthquake action is carried by finite element method-ADINA. Three-dimensional finite element modeling considered site condition is investigated; geometry model is constructed with native and parasolid method in ADINA. Gravity and earthquake force are defined in structure model, and temperature load in thermal model. According to the results of thermal mechanical coupling, the damage of buried thermal pipeline is analyzed. Influence of single temperature load on the stress and strain of buried thermal pipeline is very small, but the stress and circumferential strain increase rapidly under earthquake action. Also, the axial strain is very complex. The temperature load mainly affects axial strain under gravity and earthquake load; the increasing temperature enables to reduce axial strain, which makes axial destruction reduced. Finally, some advice is proposed.