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Pipe Bend Literature Review

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Chapter One
INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Pipe bends are used in power plants, oil refineries, petroleum pipelines, chemical industries, pharmaceuticals and food industry. The main purpose of bend pipe is to change the direction of substance in the piping system and it is considered as one of the critical components in the piping systems due to its flexibility. The piping system carry substances from one point to another point. The carrying of substance in pipe system will be done by applying pressure, temperature etc. If the piping system in an industry fails, company have to stop the running process and it’s directly loss to company. The company have to do maintenance of piping system and cost is increased. Therefore, the piping system have the importance in the industry. The safety of the …show more content…

4) The thickness at crown of the bend is the average of maximum and minimum thickness (¼t).
5) Under torsional moment loading, the pipe bend was assumed to behave like a straight pipe, keeping a circular cross-section
A.Buckshumiyan (2013) analyzed the plastic collapse loads in shape-imperfect pipe bends under in-plane opening bending moment. In this paper, one half of the pipe bend with straight pipe attachment is used for analysis. Symmetry boundary condition was applied as one half of section is used for analysis. Using Multipoint constraint, one end of pipe bend is kept constant and to the other end rotation is applied to obtain moment-rotation curve to find out the collapse load. The moment-rotation curves were plotted for each model to obtain collapse load. Finally concluded that thickness variation in the cross section of pipe bends on account of thinning and thickening produces negligible effect on collapse moment. The effect of ovality on collapse moment is

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