Experimental research on the contact force of the bi-directional pig in oil and gas pipeline

The migration process of the pig in oil and gas pipeline is a complex dynamic problem.During the pigging operation,the variation of friction force caused by the nonlinear contact between the sealing disc and the pipe wall is the key factor affecting the dynamic characteristics of the pig motion.At present,the existed pigging models for predicting pigging behavior regard friction as an invariant constant.Experimental research indicates that the friction force of the pig varies with the contact force and the lubrication conditions.Therefore,the assumption that the friction force is constant cannot reflect the friction dynamic characteristics of the pig during pigging,and will also affect the accuracy of the pigging model.Exploring the variation of friction force of pig under different conditions is the basis of establishing the transient dynamic model of a pig.As a result,in this paper,a method of direct measurement of contact force between the pig and the pipeline is presented,the contact force,the friction force,as well as the friction coefficient of the pig are obtained from the experiment.Research results in this paper can help to establish a more accurate dynamic model of pig.

Experimental studies on the energy dissipation of bolted structures with frictional interfaces:A review

Bolted joints play a more and more important role in the structure with lighter weight and heavier load.This paper aims to provide an overview of different experimental approaches for the dynamic behavior of structures in the presence of bolted joints,especially the energy dissipation or damping at frictional interfaces.The comprehension of energy dissipation mechanisms due to friction is provided first,while the key parameters and the measurement techniques,such as the excitation force,the preload of the bolt,or the pressure at the interfaces,are briefly introduced.Secondly,the round-robin systems aim to measure the hysteresis parameters of the frictional joints under tangential loads are reviewed,summarizing the basic theory and the strategies to apply the excitation force or acquire the response in different testing systems.Followed by parameter identification strategies for bolted structures,the test rigs with one or more simplified bolted joints are summarized to give an insight into the understanding of typical characteristics of bolted structures,which are affected by the presence of friction.More complex test rigs hosting real-like or actual engineering structures with bolted lap or flange joints are also introduced to show the identification process of the dynamic characteristics of bolted connections employed in specific applications.Based on the review paper,researchers can get the basic knowledge about the experimental systems of the bolted structures,especially several classical round robin systems,such as the Gaul resonator and widely used Brake-Reußbeam system.Readers can take advantage of this background for more creative and effective future studies,make more progress on the study of assembled structures and understand the influence of bolting frictional connections on the dynamic response better.

Numerical and experimental studies on unsupervised deep Lagrangian learning based rotor balancing method

Rotor balancing is essential to rotor dynamic analysis.To make the balancing process convenient and costless,a balancing method using unsupervised deep Lagrangian network without weight trail is proposed.In the proposed network,a Lagrangian layer is applied to the network to introduce the physical prior knowledge.Compared to traditional balancing method,trail weight process is not necessary.Meanwhile,parameter sharing mechanics in baseline design or Lagrangian layer are applied to identify the unbalanced force without labeled data.Both numerical case study and corresponding experiment are conducted to validate the method.Both experimental and numerical results find that the proposed rotor balancing approach gives reasonable and comparative results with the considerations of both cost and accuracy.Compared with the baseline,to which no physical prior is applied,the balancing method with Lagrangian mechanism involved could achieve better performance.This proposed rotor dynamic balancing method gives out an alternative approach of rotor balancing methods.

CFD analysis and experimental comparison of novel roof tile shapes

In tiled pitched roofs,a ventilated layer reduces the heat transfer between tiles and roof structure by means of natural and forced convection,thereby also reducing the cooling energy requirement.This effect could be enhanced by increasing the air permeability between the tiles by means of novel tile shapes,as proposed by the HEROTILE European project(UFE14 CCA/TT/000939),of which this work presents the preliminary analysis supporting the new tile designs.Using an experimental rig,the air pressure difference and the volumetric flow rate between tiles have been measured for an existing Portoghese tile design over a range of pressures.Then,in older to understand the air flows under different conditions,a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics(CFD)model has been implemented to recreate the full geometry of the rig.The model was calibrated against the aforementioned experimental results,and ran with boundary conditions simulating different wind directions.Even in the low velocities typical of average local wind patterns,the fluid dynamic problem remains complex because of the geometry of the gaps between the tiles.analytical relationship between pressure drop and flow rate,taking into account the open area.The results have shown how the wind direction affects the air permeability and,therefore,important insights have been gathered for the design of novel tiles.