Fatigue life is one of factors determining the safe service life of tanks under difficult conditions of continuous «drain-fill» operations. The methods of evaluating the fatigue life of tank shell, fixed by the current normative documentation, have several significant drawbacks. At first, the methods don’t consider total actual geometric shape and spatial position of the tank shell, as well as local geometric defects (dents, bulges). Secondly, the methods have differing results of evaluating the fatigue life (the results differ by 1.5 times or more). These drawbacks reduce the reliability of results of evaluating the fatigue life of tank shell and require modernization of the methods in terms of considering the actual shell geometry during calculations.
The joint application of the technology of terrestrial laser scanning and the finite element method will help overcome these drawbacks. The technology of terrestrial laser scanning will be an effective tool for measuring and considering all deviations of the tank shell from the ideal cylindrical shape (including local geometric defects), and the finite element method will be a tool for consider these deviations at evaluating stress-strain state of the tank shell.
The effectiveness of this approach in evaluating the fatigue life of tank shell is demonstrated in this article. The tasks that need to be solved when using the proposed approach at the initial stage are formulated.
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