Keyhole technology – finite element analyses

• Autorzy: Budnicki Marek , Rzeczycki Arkadiusz , Żyliński Bartek , Kwiatkowski Konrad , Buczkowski Ryszard

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.24425/ame.2024.150567

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Many gas companies build and operate gas distribution system in the city country and around the world. The traditional open-cut excavation requires the ground to be broken up by heavy equipment, the soil and asphalt need to be removed. Traditionally, a technician requires a minimum of 60 cm by 180 cm excavation to perform routine procedures. Often the trench must be temporarily supported using some type of shoring before a utility worker can enter the hole to perform the repairs to the utility pipe. This process is costly, time consuming, dangerous and is inconvenient to traffic patterns. We propose a new solution called keyhole technology which minimizes labor and restoration costs compared with conventional practices. In our design, the same construction and maintenance procedures can be accomplished through a 45 cm diameter circular holes above the utility pipe to be repaired. However, specially designed, long handled tools that operate remotely are necessary. This process is more cost-efficient, less dangerous and less disruptive to traffic patterns because there is no additional milling and overlaying of the road. The small hole requires little replacement materials to fill the hole. Because the concept is relatively new to the public utility sector, there is a lack of equipment/tools available that could perform the required services. The finite element analyses using commercial package Abaqus will be employed to obtain the force needed to close the pipe. As a final example, we will show the topology optimization of squeeze–off tool as the act of an iterative process. The correctness of the numerical calculations was verified by a pipe compression experiment on Instron 8850 testing machine.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

keyhole technology; squeeze–off and cut-off tools; contact problem; optimization

PL

technologia dziurki od klucza; narzędzia do wyciskania; narzędzia do odcinania; optymalizacja

• Wydawca: Komitet Budowy Maszyn PAN
• Czasopismo: Archive of Mechanical Engineering
• Rocznik: 2024
• Tom: LXXI, nr 3
• Strony: 399--417
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 7 poz., rys., fot., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Budnicki Marek

• Private Company, Toronto, Canada

autor

Rzeczycki Arkadiusz

• West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

autor

Żyliński Bartek

• West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

autor

Kwiatkowski Konrad

• West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9013-0719

autor

Buczkowski Ryszard

• West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4440-3023

Bibliografia

• [1] Canadian Flexible Gas Piping Design Guide and Installation Instructions – September 2018.
• [2] Plastic Pipe Institute., Proper Specification of HDPE Pipe for Oil & Gas Applications – April 10, 2018.
• [3] Performance Pipe a Division of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP., Performance Pipes for Oil, Gas Gathering and Oilfield Water Piping Systems – 2018.
• [4] M. Budnicki, A. Rzeczycki, B. Żylinski and R. Buczkowsk. Topology optimization of advanced finite models on examples of of the squeeze-off and cut-off tools. 20th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics, pages MS07-3-4, 28-31 August, 2013, Poznań, Poland.
• [5] Atlas Steels, Stainless Steel, 1984.
• [6] Abaqus. User’s Manual, 2022.
• [7] PPI – Plastic Pipe Institute, Standard Specifications, Standard Test Methods and Codes for PE (Polyethylene) Piping Systems, Chapter 5.

Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr POPUL/SP/0154/2024/02 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki II" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki (2025)