The modal analysis of a pipe elbow with realistic boundary conditions

A vibration analysis for the determination of the natural frequencies and the associated eigenmodes of a pipe elbow with end-flanges or tangent terminations was performed. A numerical investigation of this problem was achieved with a semi-analytic definition finite ring element and a commercial fini...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carneiro, J.O. (author)
Outros Autores: Melo, Francisco (author), Rodrigues, J. Dias (author), Lopes, Hernani (author), Teixeira, Vasco Manuel Pinto (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2010
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/1980
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/1980
Descrição
Resumo:A vibration analysis for the determination of the natural frequencies and the associated eigenmodes of a pipe elbow with end-flanges or tangent terminations was performed. A numerical investigation of this problem was achieved with a semi-analytic definition finite ring element and a commercial finite element code. To assess the accuracy of the numerical solution for the elbow vibration, an experimental modal analysis was performed on a curved and on a straight pipe. The responses were processed by a data acquisition system which performs a fast Fourier transform on the time histories to convert them from a time to frequency domain, these leading to the extraction of natural frequencies and mode shapes associated with the test-specimen. The results were compared with the corresponding ones from the numerical approach and discussion about the results completes the paper.