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Engineering Problem
Detecting the reason for the crack initiation at the cutwater region of a centrifugal pump casings using Ansys. Simulating the crack propagation along the volute of the casing from the cutwater region using Ansys and Franc3D soft wares. Finding good understanding between test results and FEA results.
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Boundary conditions
Loading conditions
Material data:
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Global Model
Local Model
boundary and pressure conditions. Used sub modelling approach to save the runtime and computation time.
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Crack orientation
Crack front radius
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Results
SIF plot along the crack lenght
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Results validation
FEA results
Test results
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Results validation
FEA results
Test results
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