Failure Analysis of Industrial Discharge Hopper Pipe

Analysis of the Synchronized Hopper System

Development of Environmentally-Friendly Pipe Filling Material Using Industrial Waste

Environmental problems have attracted worldwide attention, and the recognition of their importance has risen through the newspapers and other media every day. In the construction industry, industrial waste resulting from civil engineering work has become a big problem, termed construction pollution. Construction sludge and muddy water resulting from construction or demolition are particularly d...

Industrial Plant Pipe-Route Optimisation with Genetic Algorithms

The pipe-route design problem for heavy industrial plant concerns minimising pipe material cost while satisfying constraints on required interconnections and obstacle avoidance. This process is invariably done by human experts, but modern stochastic iterative search techniques allow the opportunity to automate this process. This study explores the possibility of automated industrial pipe-route ...

Dynamic Domain Decomposition Applied to Hopper discharge Simulation by discrete Element Method

The paper presents the development of dynamic domain decomposition applied to hopper discharge simulation by the discrete element method (DEM). Parallel neighbour search algorithm, non-blocking interprocessor communication and dynamic load balancing are implemented in the DEM code. Parallel speed-up analysis is performed solving the complex hopper discharge problems containing 100000 and 300000...

Numerical Analysis of Sediment Transport in Sewer Pipe

The efficiency and economical performance of sewer systems is an essential issue in urban drainage. The need for sewers to carry sediment has been recognized for many years. One of the main problems in designing sewerage systems is the sediment deposition. Sedimentation in sewers occurs regularly according to the alternating natural flow. The present study investigates the hydraulic characteris...