Ratcheting-fatigue investigations have been carried out to understand the ratcheting-fatigue failure of carbon manganese steel (conforming to ASME specification of SA-333 Gr.6). Experiments have been conducted on pressurized pipe-elbow assembly subjected to reversible cyclic bending, to assess the failure mechanics owing to ratcheting-fatigue synergy. These studies are required to evaluate the ...

In this study, three turbines were tested with variations in the diameter of blades elbow pipe, are ½ inch, ¾ inch and 1 alternately. The working principle test installation is that pump circulates pressurized water through a pipe from lower reservoir to nozzle, spray nozzle hits turbine so rotates, falls flows back into reservoir. rotation occurs also causes pulley generator. rotating generato...

Rehabilitation of a watermain by grouted sliplining is usually carried out when the existing pipe is only partially deteriorated. Although designs that neglect the structural contributions from the existing pipe and the grout are generally conservative, the performance of the rehabilitated pipe needs to be better understood for effective design and management of buried water pipes. Presented in...

Temperature fluctuation in fluid causes high cycle thermal fatigue in shroud structure according to its amplitude and frequency. There are still some incidents of thermal fatigue and leakage in light water reactors (Japanese PWR Tomari-2 in 2003, French PWR CIVAUX in 1998), and also in sodium cooled reactors (French FBR PHENIX in 1992). Mixing tee is a typical component where temperature fluctu...

a general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. the robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. the curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. to study the adapt...

The study of two-phase fluid flow behavior in hydraulic structures such as pressurized flow tunnels, culverts, sewer pipes, junctions and other similar conduits is of great importance. A two-phase mixture flowing in a pipe can exhibit several interfacial geometries such as bubbles, slugs or films, depending on the fluid and hydrodynamic properties of flow. The main variables, giving rise to a v...

The study of two-phase fluid flow behavior in hydraulic structures such as pressurized flow tunnels, culverts, sewer pipes, junctions and other similar conduits is of great importance. A two-phase mixture flowing in a pipe can exhibit several interfacial geometries such as bubbles, slugs or films, depending on the fluid and hydrodynamic properties of flow. The main variables, giving rise to a v...

A general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. The robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. The curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. To study the adapt...

The feeder pipe in the pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) is exposed to a possible leakage during operation. Because of the geometrical complexity of the pipe and its inaccessibility due to a high radiation environment, it is difficult to examine the defect by the conventional ultrasonic method. The guided ultrasonic inspection was chosen for the inspection of the pipe. The torsional mode h...

The gas pipelines usually undergo complicated and changeable regional environment. As the level of the potential difference or pipeline’s route changes in the space and therefore elastic bending cannot meet the needs when pipe changes its direction, we generally use pipe bend to connect two pipelines with different spatial extend direction during the pipe laying period, and it can reduce the te...