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Finite element analysis of winding sequence for cable drums
This project concerns large cable drums made of steel. Cable drums are cylindrical structures used to transport different kinds of cables or wires. The ones in focus in this work are used to transport very stiff and heavy cables to offshore sites in the oil industry. To reduce weight in structures is always of great interest, and for cable drums, that are designed according to standards, there is much that can be improved. The aim of this project is to predict the loads acting on a drum during the winding of cables. This was accomplished by performing explicit finite element simulations of the winding sequence. Modeling and meshing were done using LS-PrePost and ANSA, and the winding was simulated using LS-DYNA. LS-PrePost was also used to analyze the results, together with mETApost. A number of simplifications and delimitations have been made in order to make the simulation possible within the time frame of the project. Simplified models of both the cable and the drum have been used. Winding velocities in real life are really slow, so in order to reduce simulation times, the winding velocity had to be increased while still avoiding dynamic effects. From this, contact forces between the drum and the cable could be obtained. The contact forces were investigated with respect to different friction values between the cable and the drum, for the cable itself and also for different cable stiffnesses. The results obtained from the simulations provide contact force distributions for different parts of the drum. Much fewer rows and layers of cable were winched than in real life, and it is therefore hard to see any clear trends in the obtained forces. However, one important result of the contact forces, is that a previously used assumption, namely that the pretension of the cable only applies loads to a small fraction of the drum, was a bit too conservative. According to the simulations it actually gets distributed over the whole drum. It is hard to draw any conclusions from the obtained contact forces, due to the small ...
Finite element analysis of winding sequence for cable drums
This project concerns large cable drums made of steel. Cable drums are cylindrical structures used to transport different kinds of cables or wires. The ones in focus in this work are used to transport very stiff and heavy cables to offshore sites in the oil industry. To reduce weight in structures is always of great interest, and for cable drums, that are designed according to standards, there is much that can be improved. The aim of this project is to predict the loads acting on a drum during the winding of cables. This was accomplished by performing explicit finite element simulations of the winding sequence. Modeling and meshing were done using LS-PrePost and ANSA, and the winding was simulated using LS-DYNA. LS-PrePost was also used to analyze the results, together with mETApost. A number of simplifications and delimitations have been made in order to make the simulation possible within the time frame of the project. Simplified models of both the cable and the drum have been used. Winding velocities in real life are really slow, so in order to reduce simulation times, the winding velocity had to be increased while still avoiding dynamic effects. From this, contact forces between the drum and the cable could be obtained. The contact forces were investigated with respect to different friction values between the cable and the drum, for the cable itself and also for different cable stiffnesses. The results obtained from the simulations provide contact force distributions for different parts of the drum. Much fewer rows and layers of cable were winched than in real life, and it is therefore hard to see any clear trends in the obtained forces. However, one important result of the contact forces, is that a previously used assumption, namely that the pretension of the cable only applies loads to a small fraction of the drum, was a bit too conservative. According to the simulations it actually gets distributed over the whole drum. It is hard to draw any conclusions from the obtained contact forces, due to the small ...
Finite element analysis of winding sequence for cable drums
Vikström, Simon (author) / Thuresson, Robin (author)
2015-01-01
Theses
Electronic Resource
English
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624
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