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ASME B31G. Failure pressure of the corroded pipe (modified)

Source: R/b31gmodpf.R
b31gmodpf.Rd

Calculate failure pressure of the corroded pipe according to Modified B31G, Level-1 algorithm listed in ASME B31G-2012.

The next assumption of corrosion shape is adopted by Modified B31G:

There dcor represents argument depth.

Usage

b31gmodpf(d, wth, smys, depth, l)

Arguments

d

nominal outside diameter of pipe, [inch]. Type: assert_double.

wth

nominal wall thickness of pipe, [inch]. Type: assert_double.

smys

specified minimum yield of stress (SMYS) as a characteristics of steel strength, [PSI]. Type: assert_double.

depth

measured maximum depth of the corroded area, [inch]. Type: assert_double.

l

measured maximum longitudinal length of corroded area, [inch]. Type: assert_double.

Value

Estimated failure pressure of the corroded pipe, [PSI]. Type: assert_double.

Details

Since the definition of flow stress, Sflow, in ASME B31G-2012 is recommended with Level 1 as follows:

$$Sflow = 1.1SMYS$$

no other possibilities of its evaluation are incorporated.

For this code we avoid possible semantic optimization to preserve readability and correlation with original text description in ASME B31G-2012. At the same time source code for estimated failure pressure preserves maximum affinity with its semantic description in ASME B31G-2012.

Numeric NAs may appear in case prescribed conditions of use are offended.

References

  1. ASME B31G-2012. Manual for determining the remaining strength of corroded pipelines: supplement to B31 Code for pressure piping.

  2. S. Timashev and A. Bushinskaya, Diagnostics and Reliability of Pipeline Systems, Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 30, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25307-7

See also

Other fail pressure functions: b31gpf, dnvpf, shell92pf, pcorrcpf

Other ASME B31G functions: b31crvl(), b31gacd(), b31gacl(), b31gafr(), b31gdep(), b31gops(), b31gpf(), b31gsap()

Examples

 library(pipenostics)

 ## Example: maximum percentage disparity of original B31G
 ## algorithm and modified B31G showed on CRVL.BAS data
 with(b31gdata, {
   original  <- b31gpf(d, wth, smys, depth, l)
   modified  <- b31gmodpf(d, wth, smys, depth, l)
   round(max(100*abs(1 - original/modified), na.rm = TRUE), 4)
 })
#> [1] 32.6666
 ## Output:
 #[1] 32.6666

 ## Example: plot disparity of original B31G algorithm and
 ## modified B31G showed on CRVL data
 with(b31gdata[-(6:7),], {
   b31g  <- b31gpf(depth, wth, smys, depth, l)
   b31gmod  <- b31gmodpf(depth, wth, smys, depth, l)
   axe_range <- range(c(b31g, b31gmod))
   plot(b31g, b31g, type = 'b', pch = 16,
        xlab = 'Pressure, [PSI]',
        ylab = 'Pressure, [PSI]',
        main = 'Failure pressure method comparison',
        xlim = axe_range, ylim = axe_range)
   inc <- order(b31g)
   lines(b31g[inc], b31gmod[inc], type = 'b', col = 'red')
   legend('topleft',
          legend = c('B31G Original',
                     'B31G Modified'),
          col = c('black', 'red'),
          lty = 'solid')
 })