Abstract
Internal cracks are a serious problem in pipelines conveying unsteady pressurized fluids like natural gas. To investigate and overcome this problem, this paper is motivated to highlight and study the response of gas pipes made of functionally graded materials (FGM) instead of the traditional carbon steel material. FGM is proposed as a composite material because of its advantages of minimizing the stress variation in the pipe. Ceramic is applied because of its durability against corrosion and its surface hardness against erosion. FGM properties are radially graded and a finite element model is developed and implemented into ABAQUS package, including FORTRAN subroutines which are adapted for the present case study. Coupled plane strain thermoelastic analysis is used to investigate the stresses and the stress intensity factor (SIF) at various crack depths under the actual thermomechanical loads. Both coupled and uncoupled thermomechanical approaches are introduced and compared to reveal the necessity of the coupled analysis for accurate FGMs’ investigation. The different influences of unsteady thermal and mechanical loads on the crack propagation are discussed.
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