Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
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I am trying to find the equation for the amount of weight-sag in a large round carbon-steel horizontal cylinder. If a cyl. is round when its axis is vertical, the diameters will change when the axis is horizontal and the bottom of the cyl. is on the floor (cyl. will become shorter vertically and wider horiz.). In my specific case we are making cylinders that are 4675 mm in diameter (OD), from 32 mm thick plates.
I don't think the length of them is a factor-just the wall thickness, dia. and E.
I don't think the length of them is a factor-just the wall thickness, dia. and E.





RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants
www.tankindustry.com
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Do you have the equation?
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
From Roarks these are the formula you need:-
Dh = w*R^4 * (2-(3.142/2)*k3)
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E*I
Dv = -w*R^4 * ((3.142)^2/4)*k1-2)
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E*I
k1= 1+ alfa + beta
k3= 1+ alfa - beta
alfa= I/(A*R^2)
beta= F*E*I/(G*A*R^2)
where Dh & Dv are changes in horizontal and vertical Dia re
spectively
w= distributed load per inch
I = area moment of inertia of ring cross section
E= material modulus of elasticity
G = shear modulus of elasticity
A= cross sectional area
R= radius to centriod of cross section
F= shape factor = 10/9 for a thin walled hollow circular section
hope this helps
regards desertfox
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
If you post the length of the cylinders I can work the weight out and do the numbers for you.
regards desertfox
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Desertfox, don't you think the support condition of the cylinder would matter here?
Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants
www.tankindustry.com
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
The cylinder is pretty long, about 9,000 mm. But I *think* the length shouldn't make any difference.
For simplicity we can assume the bottom is sitting right on the floor. In actuality it sits on rollers spaced about 2,000 mm apart.
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Thanks for the response.
I assumed that the cylinder was sitting on the floor as the original post stated and therefore I took the formula from that case load.
regards desertfox
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
According to those formula I have calculated the change in diameter in the vertical and horizontal respectively as follows:- vertically dia reduction = 0.01309869712mm
horizontal dia increase = 0.004662715051mm
hope this helps,
ps if you can measure one in practice which might prove difficult I would be interested to know.
regards desertfox
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Thanks for your response and my apologies because I made
two errors during number crunching.
I think I have found and eliminated those errors and have put the formula's in a spreadsheet.
My new figures are as follows and are quite close to your measurements they are as follows:-
decrease in vertical dia = -9.05mm
increase in horizontal dia = 8.65mm
regards desertfox
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Here's another star for you-if I am able to give 2.
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
Your almost correct you also need the area moment of inertia
for the cross section and the weight per unit length so the overall length in this case was not important.
However the main things that can change are loadings and support which would alter which case study in "Roarks" you
would use, to calculate deflection values.
regards desertfox
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
I get quite different results from those of desertfox.
Those results may be obtained with forms available on the site below under Pipes -> Long.line loads -> 'Self weight' and '2 radial loads'.
In my opinion this calculation should be conducted as follows:
1)take the case of self weight with pipe sitting on its bottom line. The result is shown in the form (till someone changes the data) and is:
-reduction of vertical diameter with respect to nominal: 58 mm
-increase of horizontal diameter: 53 mm
2)now take the case of two radial loads (the rollers should apply radial loads) placed at distance 2000 and again support on bottom line. The result is (see the form):
-increase of vertical diameter: 21 mm
-reduction of horizontal diameter: 15 mm
3)by superposition one gets:
-reduction of vertical diameter with respect to nominal: 58-21=37 mm
-increase of horizontal diameter: 53-15=38 mm
As you see the effect of the support spacing is quite significant.
Would you be so kind to check the inputs and share a little more measured data, so that we all can understand where we are wrong?
prex
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RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
I don't know if I'll get another chance to measure it. Right now it is full of a bunch of 12-leg "spiders" in order to keep it round-it's "lumpy" without them. Fortunatel it isn't a pressure-retaining item-it serves as a thermal shield, but also supports a series of "eggcrates"-for tubing support.
RE: Diameter changes in a horizontal cylinder
At first I didn't realize that of course you are sitting on two sets of rollers (2 point support for your cylinder).
Now this condition is quite far from what is assumed by Roark's formulae, and would lead in my opinion to the following qualitative results:
1)if the rollers were close to tube ends, then those tube ends would display a distortion much larger than what is represented by the formulae (I guess at least the double)
2)if the rollers are, as normal, at some 1/3 and 2/3 of the length, then the pipe sections over the supports would distort still more (50% more?), but the tube ends would distort much less, and this could explain your measurements, if you took them at the ends.
Anyway there are no simple formulae to represent such a situation with localized supports, and to even guess a close approach to the result: only a FEM model (quite simple by the way) could help.
prex
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