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Wpływ wilgotności mieszanki związanej spoiwem hydraulicznym na jej parametry wytrzymałościowe

Ciołczyk Adrian, Dudko Iwona, Kwiatkowski Konrad

Materiały Budowlane

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2025

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nr 7

236--237

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Modelling of Multi-Bolted Systems at the Pretension Stage, Part 1, Mechanical Characteristics of the Contact between the Joined Elements

Grzejda Rafał, Kwiatkowski Konrad

Archives of Metallurgy and Materials

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2024

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Vol. 69, iss. 2

717--721

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The subject of the paper is the modelling of multi-bolted connections that are at the pretensioning stage. Taking a systematic approach to the modelling issue, the connection was treated as a composite of four subsystems: a bolt set, a pair of joined elements and a contact layer between them. The first part of the paper describes experimental studies to determine the contact stiffness of a pair of elements separated from an exemplary asymmetric multi-bolted connection. The normal loading and unloading direction of the contact joint was considered. The tests were performed with the use of an INSTRON 8850 servo-hydraulic testing machine equipped with an extensometer. A normal stiffness characteristic in the form of an exponential function was proposed for the tested contact joint. It will be applied in the second part of the paper, in which finite element modelling of the multi-bolted connection will be presented.

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Keyhole technology – finite element analyses

Budnicki Marek, Rzeczycki Arkadiusz, Żyliński Bartek, Kwiatkowski Konrad, Buczkowski Ryszard

Archive of Mechanical Engineering

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2024

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LXXI, nr 3

399--417

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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.