ANSYS
Case Studies
FMC Technologies: Evaluating Cumulative Damage in Subsea Oil and Gas Equipment with ANSYS Mechanical and Scripting
Overview
FMC Technologies: Evaluating Cumulative Damage in Subsea Oil and Gas Equipment with ANSYS Mechanical and ScriptingANSYS |
Sensors - Gas Sensors Sensors - Utility Meters | |
Equipment & Machinery Oil & Gas | |
Product Research & Development | |
Structural Health Monitoring | |
Operational Impact
The use of ANSYS Mechanical and scripting allowed FMC Technologies to effectively evaluate cumulative damage in compliance with ASME BPVC VIII Division 3. The ANSYS Macro capabilities enabled evaluation of derived results via scripting. Results such as principal stresses were extracted from the existing ANSYS result files. These were later used as parameters to evaluate limiting tri-axial strain for a material, under a particular loading condition. ANSYS Parametric Design Language scripting allowed for flexibility to compute derived parameters and evaluate cumulative damage. These results were stored in a separate result file and saved for access. This solution provided the engineers with the necessary tools to make informed decisions about product performance improvements, based on the damage information in the .RST file. | |