Print Email Facebook Twitter Fatigue analysis of discharge area of 26kl tank container under railway transportation Title Fatigue analysis of discharge area of 26kl tank container under railway transportation Author Zhang, Shuo (TU Delft Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering) Contributor Romeijn, Arie (mentor) den Besten, Henk (mentor) Kassapoglou, Christos (mentor) Broeders, Patrick (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2018-05-30 Abstract Tank containers are intermodal containers for the transport of liquids, gases, and powders as bulk cargo However, hazardous vibration during transportation would generate fatigue damage at discharge area. This thesis aims at calculating fatigue damage at discharge area of a specified tank container. The calculation is performed in time domain. With FEM models and measured input, hot spot stress is calculated for each hot spot. Probability distributions projects the stress distribution to a longer period thus fatigue damage for 20 years is calculated.The available data consists of acceleration and velocity of the container during a typical train transportation. A global model and a local model are established with FEM software package. Experimental data from the Lloyd register are used to verify the global model.In conclusion, during the typical transportation period, fatigue will occur at one of the hotspots. Subject Fatigue AnalysisHot spot stressTime domain calculationsANSYS APDL To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5f52fae0-3bc6-47c3-b066-28725bf2223b Embargo date 2019-06-30 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Shuo Zhang Files PDF Thesis_report_Shuo_Zhang.pdf 6.05 MB M node_selection.m 3.21 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5f52fae0-3bc6-47c3-b066-28725bf2223b/datastream/OBJ1/view