Modeling for:
❑ Aero and Astro industry
❑ Construction industry
❑ Oil and gas industry
❑ Steel industry
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1. Collapse of tubular products 2. Flexible risers: meso-scale model 3. SAGD pipes 4. OCTG threaded connections 5. Sucker rod connections 6. Modeling of hydraulic fracturing 7. Fracture of mechanical components 8. Composite pressure vessels (COPVs) 9. Sloshing 10.Vibrations in FPSO Starboard Crane 11.Satellite structures 12.Metal forming - METFOR 13.CFD 14.FSI: LNG pipeline at Dunkerque 15.FSI: Heat exchanger
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Comparison: numerical vs. experimental results Buckle arrestors: flattening mode
7 www.simytec.com TENARIS Collapse of tubular products
Comparison: numerical vs. experimental results Buckle arrestors: flipping mode
8 www.simytec.com TENARIS Flexible risers: meso-scale model
9 www.simytec.com Exxon Upstream Research Co. SAGD pipes
Comparison: numerical vs. experimental results
Torsion Test #1 32000 30000 28000 26000 24000 22000 20000 18000 16000 14000
Torque (ft-lbs) Torque 12000 10000 8000 6000 Experimental 4000 2000 FEM 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 Twisted Angle over the slotted section (degrees)
10 www.simytec.com TENARIS OCTG threaded connections
OCTG Premium Connections: tensile test
Make Up
disp = 4.10 mm
disp = 5.77 mm
disp = 10.60 mm
disp = 16.60 mm
disp = 20.06 mm
disp = 31.91 mm
disp = 46.72 mm
disp = 52.65 mm
11 www.simytec.com TENARIS OCTG threaded connections
12 www.simytec.com TENARIS Sucker rod connections
Premium connections design
Detail of the Detail of the threaded threaded
area Relative principal stresses area Tpi/Ty (Ty = 59,77 kg/mm2)
API Design New Design Principal stress I Principal Stress I
13 www.simytec.com TENARIS Sucker rod connections
14 www.simytec.com TENARIS Modeling of hydraulic fracturing
Brazilian test with a slot Model validation: numerical simulation with different material models
Mohr Coulomb Drucker Prager (outter)
Drucker Maximum Prager tension (inner)
15 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing
16 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing
90
80 Arbitrary mesh Structured mesh 70
60
50
40 Fracture length [m] lengthFracture 30
20
10
0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Time [sec]
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18 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing
Penny Shape
z y x
19 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing
Penny Shape
20 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing Sequential fractures
21 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing Simultaneous fractures
22 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing Simultaneous fractures
23 www.simytec.com YTEC Modeling of hydraulic fracturing Simultaneous fractures
24 www.simytec.com YTEC Fracture of mechanical components
Clam bucket
Interface damage (%)
Maximum Damage 19%
25 www.simytec.com ALUAR Composite pressure vessels (COPVs) Stresses in different layers
#1 #1 흋 = ퟒ. ퟖ° 휑 = 26°
#1 #1 휑 = 72° 휑 = 48°
26 www.simytec.com VENG Composite pressure vessels (COPVs)
50 lt vessel burst test
Test burst pressure :
Pe = 54 MPa FEM burst pressure :
PMEF =52 MPa
PMEF / Pe = 0.963
27 www.simytec.com VENG Sloshing
28 www.simytec.com VENG Vibrations in FPSO Starboard Crane
Damper locations
29 www.simytec.com BW Offshore Vibrations in FPSO Starboard Crane
1,50E+05 Force - Damper 1 1,00E+05
5,00E+04
0,00E+00 23,00 23,50 24,00 24,50 25,00 25,50 26,00 26,50 27,00 Force [N] Force -5,00E+04
-1,00E+05 Damper #1 FEM Model Response Damper #1 load pin damper adquisition -1,50E+05 Time [s]
1,50E+05 Force - Damper 2 Damper #2 FEM Model Response Damper #2 load pin damper adquisition 1,00E+05
5,00E+04
0,00E+00
23,00 23,50 24,00 24,50 25,00 25,50 26,00 26,50 27,00 Force [N] Force -5,00E+04
-1,00E+05
-1,50E+05 Time [s]
30 www.simytec.com BW Offshore Satellite structures
Arsat
31 www.simytec.com INVAP Satellite structures
Thermoelastic analysis Dynamic Analysis
32 www.simytec.com INVAP Satellite structures Shaker adapter
33 www.simytec.com INVAP Metal forming - METFOR
Hot rolling of flat products
2.32
2.30
2.28
2.26
2.24
2.22 Measurements Thickness [mm] Thickness 2.20 METFOR 2.18
2.16
2.14 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 Distance from the stand center [mm]
34 www.simytec.com TENARIS Metal forming - METFOR
The Mannesmann piercing process
35 www.simytec.com TENARIS Metal forming - METFOR
The Mannesmann piercing process
36 www.simytec.com TENARIS CFD Airplane wing
37 www.simytec.com FAdeA CFD Airplane wing
38 www.simytec.com FAdeA FSI: LNG pipeline at Dunkerque
Fluid mesh and BC Solid mesh and BC Mass Flow Inlet P2 Mass Flow Inlet P1 Supports length – 0.20m
• fixed at inletP1-inletP2-outletP7. • fixedNormalDisplacement at Supports. Pressure Outlet P7
Mass Flow = 0 kg/s
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Inlet P1
Inlet P2
40 www.simytec.com TECHINT E&C FSI: LNG pipeline at Dunkerque
41 www.simytec.com TECHINT E&C FSI: Heat exchanger
Fluid Mesh Solid Mesh
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Fluid Velocities
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Solid Stresses
Central Section Near first baffle Section
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