Investigation of the Effects of Geometric and Load Perturbation to Buckling in Multilayered Torispherical Pressure Vessel Heads

Abstract

The object of this paper is to investigate the effects of geometry and load perturbation to buckling in multilayered pressure vessel heads. The pressure vessel head in concern is thin walled torispherical geometry. Geometric and load perturbation can alter both the critical load for buckling and the buckled shape. Two and three layered torsispherical heads are considered. Two layered models include steel–aluminum and titanium–aluminum configurations and three layered models include pressurized three-dimensional torispherical pressure vessel head model that is previously used in literature is constructed. As a first step eigenvalue solutions are obtained for each model. After this instability solutions with large deformation effects are conducted to obtain more realistic instability pressure values nonlinear. The solution is performed by finite element program ANSYS Workbench. In nonlinear analyses, perfectly plastic material model is used. It is concluded that geometric and load perturbations cause the instability pressure to decrease and cause the structure to buckle at a lower pressure value. It is also observed that for steel-aluminum configuration geometric perturbation is more critical than load perturbation whereas for aluminum-titanium the reverse is valid

Keywords

• Multilayer; perturbation; torispherical pressure vessel heads; buckling; instability, eigenvalue

Investigation of the Effects of Geometric and Load Perturbation to Buckling in Multilayered Torispherical Pressure Vessel Heads

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