In the present work, structure health monitoring (SHM) of welded steel pipes was used to diagnosis their state via vibration based damage detection techniques. The dynamic quantities such as Frequency Response Functions (FRFs), mode shapes and modal parameters from structural vibration to detect damage were measured, set on linear averaging mode, with a maximum frequency of analysis of 3.2 kHz....

On-line spray water cooling (OSWC) of electric-resistance-welded (ERW) steel pipes can replace the conventional off-line heat treatment process and become an important and critical procedure. The OSWC process improves production efficiency, decreases costs, and enhances the mechanical properties of ERW steel pipe, especially the impact properties of the weld joint. In this paper, an annular OSW...

The weld quality of Tunston inert gas welded joint has been investigated to identify the most economical weld parameters that will bring about optimum properties. Artificial neural network, has been used in the prediction and optimization of the Tunston inert gas weld of mild steel pipes. Neural network model was generated using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm with feed ward back propagation ...

There are a wide range of important applications for metal tube materials in various fields. The production process of high-frequency longitudinally welded pipe includes first using a roller to coil the long steel strips of a certain size into a cylinder shape, and then join them by heating the steel materials at the welding edge with a high-frequency welding machine — Fig. 1. The processes inc...

A finite element scheme for simulation of welding residual stresses is presented in this paper. Detailed thermal and residual stress analyses for butt-welded and socket-welded pipes are performed using ANSYS and ABAQUS. The calculated distribution of axial stress and hoop stress at welded joint are validated against experimental results. Furthermore, residual stress relaxation under high amplit...

in this paper, two api x70 steel pipes (with spiral seam weld) of 56 inch outside diameter and 0.780 inch wall thickness were girth welded first. next, hole drilling tests were conducted for strain measurement on the surfaces of the pipes. the values of residual stresses on the internal and external surfaces of the pipe were determined, from strain data using astm 837 standard. the experimental...

Welding quality control is an important parameter for safe operation of oil and gas pipes, especially for high-strength steel pipes. Size control of welding defect is a bottleneck problem for current pipe construction. As a key part of construction procedure for butt-welding of pipes, pore defects in girth weld is difficult to ignore. A three-dimensional non-linear finite element numerical mode...

Steel pipelines in industrial plants consist of different elements, including seamless and/or welded (seam) pipes. Properties pipes, their fracture behaviour, depend on the characteristics both, base metal, and weld metal. In this work, two seam pipes are considered having diameters manufactured P235TR1 steel. Hardness microstructure were examined samples which contained zone, to capture influe...

There are many industries where austenitic stainless steel needs to be welded specially in power generation industries. Unfortunately the austenitic stainless welding has several fabrication and metallurgical drawbacks when welded by using conventional fusion welding methods, which can often leads to in-service failure. The most pronounced fabrication faults are hot cracks due to inadvertent us...