Print Email Facebook Twitter Mechanical responses of a fiberglass flexible pipe subject to tension & internal pressure Title Mechanical responses of a fiberglass flexible pipe subject to tension & internal pressure Author Fang, P. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Xu, Yuxin (Zhejiang University) Gao, Yifan (Zhejiang University) Ali, Liaqat (Zhejiang University) Bai, Yong (Zhejiang University) Date 2022 Abstract Composite structures, such as the fiberglass reinforced structure studied in this paper, have been normally treated in previous research as homogeneous anisotropic laminated plates regarding the investigation of their mechanical properties. Throughout this paper, this specific structure is considered in a different way in which the fiberglass and polyethylene matrix are treated separately. By using the proposed method, the material plasticity of polyethylene and the fracture stress of the fiberglass can be taken into account, and thus the fracture of the fiberglass inside the fiberglass reinforced flexible pipes(FGRFP) can be predicted. The mechanical behaviour behavior of FGRFP under two real-life main loadings(tension and internal pressure) is investigated by using analytical and numerical methods based on the proposed technique. Experiments are used to verify the results. Subject Analytical solutionExperimentFailureFiberglass flexible pipesFinite element solutionInternal pressure axisymmetric loadingsTension To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3584223f-b8b2-4655-8115-d3a69da67633 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.2022.110107 ISSN 0263-8231 Source Thin-Walled Structures, 181 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2022 P. Fang, Yuxin Xu, Yifan Gao, Liaqat Ali, Yong Bai Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0263823122006590_main.pdf 4.94 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3584223f-b8b2-4655-8115-d3a69da67633/datastream/OBJ/view