Abstract
The external clamp of hydraulic pipeline plays an important role in strengthening pipeline stiffness and improving vibration attenuation ability. In this study, wave propagation method is proposed to evaluate the translational and rotational stiffness and their loss factors of the clamp by analyzing the flexural wave propagation characteristics of pipeline. In order to validate the measured dynamic properties, experimental modal analysis was performed on the two-end elastically-supported pipeline. By modelling the pipeline with translational and rotational edge restraints, the analytical modal frequency parameters, wave numbers, and waveform coefficients were obtained. By comparing of the first-order flexural mode frequencies between experiment and analysis, the dynamic stiffness predicted by the wave propagation method was validated. The effects of the magnitude of torque, direction, clamping torque cycle, and clamp size on the complex dynamic properties of pipeline clamp were investigated. The proposed wave propagation method allows non-destructive continuous monitoring of a clamp stiffness, provides additional information about the vibration attenuation feature. It has advantages in clamp applications and is an effective methodology for measuring the dynamic properties of viscoelastic materials.
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