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Description of creep crack propagation in electrofusion sockets for polymer pipes connection
 Helešicová, Petra ; Horníková, Jana (referee) ; Trávníček, Lukáš (advisor)
The presented bachelor’s thesis deals with crack propagation by the slow crack growth mechanism in electrofusion sockets used for welding of polymer pipes. The thesis can be divided into several parts. First part presents a research on the topic of polymer pipes, materials used for their production, types of failures and ways of connecting including detailed description of the process of electrofusion welding with electrofusion sockets. Next part is focused on fracture mechanics that is used for the practical part of the thesis. The theory of linear elastic fracture mechanics and its stress-intensity approach are described. Different ways of obtaining the stress intensity factor, which is the main parameter used to describe the stress distribution at the crack tip, are presented. The practical part of the thesis focuses on numerical modelling of crack propagation through an electrofusion socket wall and calculating values of stress intensity factor in dependence on the crack length. The creation of the numerical model for the crack propagation simulation is described. The direction of propagation is evaluated using MTS criterion. The whole simulation is carried out by a parametric macro created using the APDL language. The main goal of the thesis is to describe the influence of the socket geometry or joint configuration changes on the stress intensity factor values and calculated lifetimes. The stress intensity factor functions for the modified configurations are compared to the original. At the end of the thesis, lifetime estimations of the electrofusion sockets are also calculated using the stress intensity factor functions and compared.
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