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Temperature And Stress Analysis During Tank Decanting And Refilling Process, Zhe Liu
Temperature And Stress Analysis During Tank Decanting And Refilling Process, Zhe Liu
Department of Engineering Mechanics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
In the present work, an analytical expression for the temperature distribution of the cross-section of a natural gas transport tank is derived by time-matching Green’s Function method. The tank decanting process can produce a living temperature decrease inside the tank wall while the filling process can produce a large temperature increase. This behavior can cause damage to the inner layer of the tank. The damage occurs in the form of excessive stress in the wall which is combined mechanical stress and thermal stress. Therefore, thermo-elasticity analysis is another objective of the present work. A simplified mechanical model is established in …