Oblique Y-groove cracking test of the welding cold cracking susceptibility of domestic X-70 pipeline steel

Gas Transmitting From West to East Project' is significant. It should ensure the welding quality and safety of pipeline. The task is very arduous to guarantee the quality of the project in the condition of long line, complex weather and geology features. In this paper, the welding cold cracking susceptibility of domestic X 70 pipeline steel adopted by the project, which is one of the most interesting questions of welding quality about petrol pipeline, was studied by means of oblique Y groove cracking test. The crack ratio of surface and section was tested under the conditions of different welding materials and preheat temperature .The thickness of plate steel was 14.7 mm and 10.3 mm . The results reveal that X 70 pipeline steel has good crack resistance. The research has important value for the construction of large scale pipeline engineering and the application of domestic X 70 pipeline steel.

Fractal characteristics of cracks and fragments generated in unloading rockburst tests

True triaxial rockburst experiments with four different unloading rates were performed on four prism specimens of granite sampled from Beishan, China. The damage evolution in the rockburst test was investigated from two aspects including fracture surface crack and fragment characteristics. The scanning electron microscopy was used to observe the micro crack information on fragment surface. Combing binarization and box counting dimensions, the fractal dimensions of cracks were obtained. Meanwhile,the fragments were collected and a sieving experiment was conducted. We weighed the fragments qualities, counted the amount of fragments and measured the fragments length, width and thickness.Utilizing four methods to calculate damage fractal dimensions of fragments, the trend of fractal value changing with unloading rates can be roughly described. It can be concluded from these experiments that the fractal dimension either for crack or for fragment holds a decreasing trend with the decreasing unloading rate, indicating a reduction of damage level.

Detection of Damage and Crack in Railhead by Using Eddy Current Testing

Eddy current testing is a nondestructive testing method, which is used to detect discontinuities and defects in conductive materials. Using this technique, two different types of artificial defects in a railhead were evaluated in order to analyze the relationship between different types of defects and eddy current signals, and to obtain data on the size of the rail surface defects and crack location. The actually used rail sample was also studied. Surface cracks and defects were clearly observed as amplitude and phase changes of detected signals. This study succeeds in quantitatively analyzing and discriminating the damage types.

Numerical simulation of plate rigid restraint cracking tests based on cohesive element model

Cohesive element is developed from the Dugdal-Barenblatt model in the field of fracture mechanics. The mechanical constitutive relation of cohesive element can be artificially assumed depending on the specific applications. It has been successfully applied in the study of crystal plasticity/brittle fracture process and decohesion between delaminations. In this paper, tensile experiments of large steel plate with different length of pre-existing cracks are conducted. Based on commercial software ABAQUS, cohesive element is adopted to simulate the tensile tests, and appropriate parameter values are obtained by fitting displacement-force curves. Using these parameters, a numerical method is presented by applying cohesive element to thermo-elastic-plastic finite element method （TEP-FEM） to simulate plate rigid restraint cracking （PRRC） tests. By changing constitutive relation of cohesive element, dimensions of the model and welding conditions, the influence of welding restraint intensity and welding conditions on the crack propagation are discussed, respectively. Three types of welding cold cracking are simulated. Significant influence of welding cold cracking on resistant stress in welding line is captured by this numerical method.

Study on hydrogen assisted cracking susceptibility of HSLA steel by implant test

DMR-249 A is an indigenously developed high strength low alloy steel for Indian ship building industry for making ship-hull and is extensively used in the construction of war ships and submarines. Welding electrodes conforming to SFA 5.5 AWS E8018 C1 has been indigenously developed for welding of this steel using shielded metal arc welding process. In the present study, susceptibility to hydrogen assisted cracking of DMR-249 A steel welds made using this electrode has been assessed using implant test. Implant tests were conducted using this electrode at two different levels of diffusible hydrogen, measured using gas chromatography technique. It is observed that both the steel and the welding consumable are not susceptible to hydrogen assisted cracking even with a high diffusible hydrogen level of 9 m L/100 g of weld metal. In implant tests, specimen did not fracture even after loading to stress levels higher than the yield strength of the base metal. The good resistance of this steel and the welding consumable, even with high levels of diffusible hydrogen, is attributed to absence of a susceptible microstructure in both the weld metal and heat affected zone. Hence, this study shows that, in the absence of a susceptible microstructure, hydrogen assisted cracking is unlikely to occur even if hydrogen level is high. It also confirms that in welding of DMR-249 A with indigenously developed E8018 C1 electrode, hydrogen assisted cracking is not a concern and no preheating is required to avoid it during welding.

Edge crack growth of mortar plate specimens under uniaxial loading tests

In this paper, a compression-to-tension conversion technique is developed by applying predominant mode I loading test, using a servo-controlled compression system. The technique is applied to thin mortar plate specimens of different widths that include a prefabricated crack on either a single side to facilitate unilateral crack propagation, or prefabricated cracks positioned on both sides asymmetrically with respect to the specimen midpoint to facilitate bilateral crack propagation under direct tensile stress with a loading rate of 0.001 mm/s. The results show that the main pathways of unilateral crack propagation governing specimen failure are fluctuated locally, but present an approximately straight line overall in the absence of pre-existing internal defects. However, the pathways of bilateral crack propagation are relatively complex, although they present similar characteristics. Analysis results suggest that bilateral crack propagation can be basically divided into three stages, i.e. a stage of linear propagation, a stage representing deviation from the other crack, and a stage where one crack approaches either the other crack or approaches the opposite edge of the specimen, and thereby forming a continuous crack through the specimen. In addition, the stressestrain curves of bilateral crack specimens do not vary significantly around the point of peak stress prior to specimen failure, which means that the specimens do not fail instantaneously.

On the Bump Tests of Cracked Shafts Using Acoustic Emission Techniques

An investigation about the application of Acoustic Emission (AE) techniques to analyze the dynamic response of different cracked shafts rendered in bump tests is presented in this work. The experimental apparatus devised for this work complies of six shafts with different transverse crack sizes and a high-frequency data acquisition system. The AE signals generated in the bump tests performed on the different cracked shafts are captured by a wideband AE transducer. Those signals are treated by using statistical moments, wavelet transforms, and frequency- and time-domain procedures. A transverse crack of predetermined depth is etched into each shaft. The experimental results show that the values of kurtosis and skewness estimated for the AE signals can be used to identify the crack size.

新型Bell实验法环境应力开裂测试装置

自主设计并搭建了自动刻痕装置和压弯装置,提高了刻痕质量和测试结果的可重复性,同时采用改进的Bell实验方法对高密度聚乙烯材料的环境应力开裂行为进行了系统实验研究。结果表明,试剂浓度、刻痕偏移量、刻痕倾斜角度、刻痕刀片厚度的改变均会对环境应力开裂时间产生较大的影响;裂纹起裂位置既不在试样弯曲变形最大的中间位置,也不在刻痕边缘,而是在距离刻痕边缘约6.38 mm的位置。

全浸腐蚀后焊接接头疲劳裂纹扩展速率分析

服役于海洋环境中的风力发电机,其塔筒上的焊接结构不可避免地要遭受洋流、风浪、工作过程中带来的疲劳载荷及海洋复杂环境引发的腐蚀,往往成为腐蚀疲劳失效中的薄弱环节,因此,研究焊接接头的腐蚀疲劳现象,探索其背后的运作机制具有十分重要的意义.选用S355低合金高强钢作为试验材料,进行S355钢焊接接头在5%NaCl环境中的预腐蚀疲劳裂纹扩展试验.试验结果表明,与未经预腐蚀的试件相比,预腐蚀48 h的试样疲劳裂纹扩展速率并没有明显增加,而预腐蚀336 h的试样疲劳裂纹扩展速率增加显著.利用扫描电子显微镜对预腐蚀后的疲劳试件进行微观表征,观察到在裂纹扩展路径周围存在微裂纹和分支裂纹,表明金属发生了脆化.在预腐蚀疲劳断面上,观察到了裂纹扩展模式的转变,表层金属呈现平面脆性特征,内部金属保留了疲劳韧性特征,微观表征的结果表明,预腐蚀脆化了表层金属,从而加快了试件整体的疲劳裂纹扩展速率.

基于数字图像相关的地聚物混凝土轨枕的力学性能分析

随着混凝土轨枕在我国的广泛应用,混凝土的生产带来大量的能源消耗和碳排放。地聚物作为一种新型低碳材料,能在节能减碳的同时消耗矿渣和粉煤灰等固废。目前,针对地聚物应用于铁路轨枕的相关研究,如混合使用水泥与粉煤灰、矿渣的地聚物混凝土轨枕及其裂缝扩展特性的研究还比较有限。本文设计2种配合比的地聚物混凝土并制造成轨枕,使用数字图像相关(Digital Image Correlation)技术,在轨下截面的三点弯曲实验下分析2种配合比下轨枕挠度、裂缝扩展特性及裂缝宽度发展规律。研究结果表明,2种配合比地聚物混凝土轨枕的抗弯承载力均高于普通混凝土轨枕。相比于普通混凝土轨枕,地聚物混凝土轨枕在较低的静荷载作用下挠度较大,但随着荷载的增加轨枕挠度的增长速度较慢,刚度损失较小,弹性阶段延续的荷载区间更长,这种特征在配合比为Geo50的地聚物混凝土轨枕上更为显著。2种配合比的轨枕微裂纹萌生的荷载相近,分别为130 kN和120 kN。在较低荷载下2种轨枕裂缝扩展相差不大,在较高荷载下配合比为Geo100的地聚物轨枕的裂缝发展加快,裂缝宽度值和增长速度都大于Geo50。配合比为Geo100的地聚物混凝土轨枕主要表现为受弯正截面破坏,配合比为Geo50的地聚物混凝土轨枕主要表现为受剪斜拉破坏。掺入部分水泥代替矿渣和粉煤灰的地聚物能使所制成轨枕在较高的荷载下保持更高刚度和更缓慢的裂缝扩展速度,该方案有助于推动地聚物应用于混凝土轨枕,促进铁路双碳战略贯彻与实施。

隧道衬砌裂缝特征对承载力的影响分析

为明确松动荷载作用下,衬砌裂缝特征对结构承载性能的影响,通过1∶10模型试验和数值分析研究了带裂缝结构的受力变形特征、破坏模式和极限承载能力。结果表明:对于预制裂缝长度不超过L/3(试件纵向长度)、深度不超过0.7 H(试件厚度)的试件,裂缝发展存在阶段性特征,试件破坏由拱腰失效引起,属于延性破坏。对于预制裂缝长度不低于2 L/3或深度不低于0.9 H的试件,裂缝发展过程不存在阶段性特征,试件破坏由拱顶失效引起,属于脆性破坏;随裂缝长度和深度增加,结构极限承载力降低。当预制裂缝长度为L/3且深度为0.3 H、0.7 H、0.9 H,以及长度为2 L/3且深度为0.3 H、0.7 H时,试件极限承载力依次为完整试件的86.96%、78.26%、73.91%、69.57%、60.87%。相比于裂缝深度,纵向长度对结构承载性能影响更明显,可作为裂缝评价的重要指标;提出了基于裂缝特征的衬砌承载力预测公式,可明确带裂衬砌的极限承载力,为结构性能评估、加固时机及加固参数的选取提供依据。

T23/P23钢高强匹配焊缝金属接头再热裂纹表征

综述了T23/P23钢高强匹配焊缝金属接头再热裂纹的特征。结果表明,T23/P23耐热钢高强匹配接头再热裂纹倾向明显,焊后状态高强匹配接头具有较高的强度和可以接受的塑性和韧性。接头显微组织中的HAZ粗晶区碳化物析出、晶界的滑移及晶界的脆化是再热裂纹产生的必要条件;影响HAZ组织的主要因素是母材中碳化物形成元素和残留元素的种类及含量。随接头拘束应力增大,再热温度升高时再热裂纹倾向增大。T23/P23钢接头中氢的行为是产生再热裂纹不可忽视的影响因素。生产中常用低应力化和低氢化综合工艺及参数,以及新型专用焊接材料等措施,使接头中的应力水平降低,氢含量最小化,控制再热裂纹形成条件,并获得了较满意的效果。

积石山M6.2地震诱发秦阴村黄土震陷灾害研究

2023年12月18日在甘肃省临夏州积石山县发生的M6.2地震诱发了多处黄土震陷灾害。通过对积石山县石塬镇秦阴村黄土震陷灾害进行现场调查,得出灾害的主要特征;利用原状黄土开展室内试验,研究秦阴村黄土的物性参数特征、微结构特征和震陷性,结合现场调查结果分析震陷灾害产生的主要原因。研究结果表明:秦阴村震陷区内土体酥裂,裂缝发育,边缘土体坍落或产生滑坡;土层呈反倾台阶状震裂破坏,最大沉降量57 cm,裂缝最大长度约300 m,宽度约83 cm。震陷区黄土土质疏松、含水率较高、架空孔隙发育、颗粒胶结较弱,具备产生震陷的土性条件。震陷区黄土层厚度较大,地震的等效动应力大于土体产生震陷的临界动应力,且地震动持续时间较长、卓越周期较大,使得场地产生了严重的震陷破坏。

“贝壳板”加固直角突变式钢吊车梁疲劳性能研究

针对既有直角突变式钢吊车梁,提出一种“贝壳板”加固方法,即在吊车梁变截面处腹板两侧,焊接带圆弧的“类贝壳式”钢板对吊车梁进行疲劳加固的方法.该加固方法是通过增加变截面区域腹板的刚度来降低疲劳细节的应力水平,从而提高其疲劳强度.通过缩尺疲劳试验对使用“贝壳板”加固后的直角突变式钢吊车梁疲劳性能进行了研究,分析“贝壳板”加固后吊车梁的疲劳破坏规律,评估加固后吊车梁的疲劳性能.以加固后吊车梁最危险疲劳细节的主应力为基本参量,给出了加固后吊车梁的设计S_(r,p)-N疲劳曲线.并通过试验结果验证了加固后吊车梁裂纹扩展模拟和寿命计算的正确性,进一步分析“贝壳板”加固后吊车梁破坏细节的疲劳裂纹扩展特性,研究“贝壳板”高度和厚度变化对加固效果的影响,可为吊车梁的加固设计提供参考依据.

山核桃破壳裂纹试验与仿真分析

研究山核桃在冲击力下裂纹产生和发展的规律。用万能力学试验机进行冲击破壳试验,分别对山核桃在长轴、斜向和短轴加载方向各进行3种不同高度的15次重复试验。结果表明,无论加载方向如何,破壳冲击力的最大值都在240 N左右,且越靠近横轴方向力越小,越靠近长轴方向力越大。以此为依据,将山核桃横向截面简化为圆形,通过在传统弹塑性元素接触模型基础上增加强结合力的方法,构建压头—山核桃离散单元模型。仿真结果显示,水平压头会造成山核桃模型对称裂纹形式被压溃;与此同时,竖直状态压头会以S型裂纹形式分裂山核桃模型。通过高速摄像机拍摄山核桃破壳裂纹产生过程,与仿真结果基本一致。为山核桃破壳机械的设计、优化与深入地理解山核桃裂纹产生与发展机理提供重要参考。

铝合金气瓶泄漏原因

在对某铝合金气瓶进行循环压力试验时,气瓶发生泄漏事故。采用宏观观察、化学成分分析、力学性能测试、扫描电镜及能谱分析、金相检验等方法对气瓶泄漏的原因进行分析。结果表明:铝合金气瓶内壁接触了腐蚀性介质,在气瓶内壁产生了点腐蚀坑,在循环压力试验过程中,点腐蚀坑作为疲劳源,使气瓶内壁发生疲劳开裂,裂纹不断扩展并穿透壁厚,最终导致铝合金气瓶发生泄漏。

Q460C钢缺口板的疲劳裂纹萌生寿命计算模型和总疲劳寿命计算

基于位错随循环加载次数的增加加速移动、聚合形成疲劳裂纹的试验事实,假设疲劳裂纹萌生速率是循环加载次数的单调递增幂函数,通过积分推导出疲劳裂纹萌生寿命计算模型。Q460C钢缺口板的疲劳试验结果显示,疲劳裂纹萌生寿命、扩展寿命和总疲劳寿命均随应力幅和名义最大应力的降低而增加,疲劳裂纹形成寿命与总疲劳寿命的比值为0.82~0.90。我国《钢结构设计标准》建议的总疲劳寿命计算式的计算误差为-17.0%~+84.9%。以椭球面断裂模型作为裂尖开裂判据,对Q460C钢缺口板的疲劳裂纹扩展进行了理论计算和数值模拟。以疲劳裂纹萌生处应变溢出时裂纹长度0.05 mm作为疲劳裂纹萌生临界尺寸,标定的Q460C钢缺口板的疲劳裂纹萌生寿命计算式、扩展寿命计算式和总疲劳寿命计算式的计算误差分别为-15.0%~-1.2%、-12.4%~+2.8%和-12.1%~-1.4%。

公路隧道箱型预制仰拱变形破坏的模型试验研究

基于自主设计的新型箱型预制仰拱结构,采用室内物理模型试验,结合数字照相量测技术,研究该箱型预制仰拱的力学特性及破坏模式,通过数值模拟研究实际工况中衬砌与仰拱共同作用的受力规律.结果表明:竖向荷载作用下产生的拉张效应是预制仰拱裂纹产生及发展的主要原因,水平压力对预制仰拱的裂纹发展作用不明显.预制块接缝处以及各个预制块中柱转角处是预制仰拱结构的最薄弱部位,接缝处和转角处影响预制仰拱结构的安全.预制仰拱位移变化关于中轴部位呈对称分布,位移由大到小依次为中间预制块、左1预制块、左2预制块、左3预制块.箱型预制仰拱破坏可以分为加载压密、弹塑性变形和塑性破坏3个阶段.当仰拱与衬砌共同作用时,仰拱的上部主要承受拉应力,仰拱的下部主要承受压应力.试验结果表明,所设计仰拱结构具有良好的受力性能.

型钢-UHPC轻型组合桥面板及其抗弯性能研究

正交异性钢桥面是目前800m以上国内外特大跨径钢桥的唯一选择,主因是自重轻、强度高、架设方便。但其存在疲劳开裂风险大、运维成本高的缺点。随着高性能材料UHPC的研发和应用,为构建自重轻、病害少、经济性好的桥面新结构提供了可能性。经过多年研究,作者提出一种新型桥面板结构——型钢-UHPC轻型组合桥面结构,将型钢、钢板条与UHPC组合,桥面板的形成无任何板件焊接,因而具有高抗疲劳性,且与传统钢桥面相比,自重持平、造价减半,可作为除“正交异性钢桥面”外的“第二种”大跨径钢桥的桥面结构方案。该文研究这种轻型组合桥面板预制板及横向接缝的抗弯性能,制作4个条带模型(包括2个预制板试件和2个接缝试件),开展三点弯曲的横向接缝负弯矩试验和预制板正弯矩试验,并对试验结果进行分析;基于“条带法”建立预制板试件极限承载力计算模型,提出接缝试件的UHPC开裂名义拉应力计算方法;基于某斜拉桥应用实例,进行整体计算和局部计算,验证新型组合桥面结构在实桥上应用的可行性。研究结果表明:(1)型钢与UHPC间在极限状态前相对滑移非常小,具有良好的协同受力性能;(2)预制板试件的正弯矩极限承载力以型钢屈服控制,而接缝试件负弯矩极限承载力以UHPC开裂和加密钢筋断裂控制;(3)接缝试件的“T形”接缝、加密钢筋、燕尾形的企口、交错式切割型钢钢条等构造设计对接缝整体抗弯拉性能有很好的提高效果;(4)预制板试件极限承载力计算模型所得计算值与试验值吻合良好,该模型搭配名义拉应力计算方法,可帮助工程实际问题的设计与应用;(5)试验结果与实桥的有限元计算值相比,新型桥面结构均有1.3倍以上的安全系数,新型组合桥面应用于实桥具有可行性。