Axial failure modes

Analysis parameters should be established to monitor the key indices of the compressor s dynamics and failure modes. These indices should include bearings, gear mesh, rotor passing frequencies, and mnning speed. However, because of its sensitivity to process instability and the normal tendency to thmst, the most critical monitoring parameter is axial movement of the male and female rotors. 

In most cases, this failure mode also excites the third (3x) harmonic frequency and creates strong axial vibration. Depending on the severity of the instability and the design of the machine, process instability also can create a variety of shaft-mode shapes. In turn, this excites the lx, 2x, and 3x radial vibration components. 

The failure mechanisms of interest in reinforced masonry wall elements include flexural, transverse shear, in-plane shear and in some cases, combined axial compression and flexure. Buckling failure modes of compression elements and connection failures are to be avoided. 

Fig. 19. Transmitted and polarized light micrographs of a single graphite fiber in an epoxy matrix under axial loading. The fiber and matrix are the same. Only the interphase has been changed. Three different failure modes develop as a result of the interphase alteration. From Drzal et al. 841...

Figure 5. Failure mode of different point of axial stress in unloading process under 10 MPa confining pressure.

Finally, a word about the fracture properties of poly(p-benzamide) fibre. Not unexpectedly it appears that the extreme axial properties of the fibre have to be paid for in terms of very poor transverse properties. Indeed the higher the modulus the greater is the tendency for the fibre to exhibit a failure mode consisting of fibrillation and splintering. Words cannot describe this as well as the Stereoscan photograph (Fig. 10) and Fig. 11 which compares fracture surfaces in a glass fibre-epoxy composite (a) and a poly(p-benzamide)-epoxy composite (b) prepared in the authors laboratories. 

The load-axial displacement curves for aU temperatures are summarized in Figure 5.11. The specimens exhibiting tensile failure mode (up to 100°C) showed an almost linear behavior until failure (only 16% loss of secant stiffness on average), while those exhibiting shear failure (above 140°C) showed a highly nonlinear response and a less steeply descending branch, similarly as observed for the shear experiments, see Figure 5.6. 

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One of the failure modes for cylindrical or conical under axial compression is buckling. In cylindrical components, buckling is a phenomenon that occurs when the cylinder fails in compression before the ultimate compressive strength is reached. It is a function of geometry, material properties, and is affected by imperfections in shape. 

Fig. 7.9 Plastic strain and failure mode (0 axial stress) (Wall rocking)...

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A fundamental difference between the maximum work and the other theories lies in the question of interaction among the failure modes. The maximum stress and strain theories assume that there is no interaction among the three failure modes (axial, transverse, and shear failures). 

Axial compression buckling of the vertical wall Buckling of the vertical wall is by far the commonest failure mode in metal silos. The buckles can be huge or quite local, but all buckles should be treated as very serious because this mode of failure is often dramatically catastrophic. 

Failure mode XI Open seal face-axial. Its causes are temperature growth, spiral failure (caused by conditions which allow some parts of fhe ring to slide and ofhers to roll that cause twisting), impeller adjustment error, thrust movement, etc. 

Failure mode XII Axial shear. Its cause is excessive pressure loading. 

Failure Mode Classification of RC Elements Columns are generally subjected to the contemporary presence of axial load, shear forces, and bending moment. The interaction between those internal forces strictly affects the response of structural elements and consequently their mode of failure. Interaction effects, i.e., the influence of shear forces on flexural deformations and that of normal stress resultants on shear deformations, are important. In general, they cannot be neglected. 

Shear failure mode, S - initial shear capacity (Yo), i.e., not affected by cyclic degradation, is lower than the plastic shear capacity (Vp), and flexural response is modified by a preemptive shear failure in the elastic response phase of the element. Deformation capacity (i.e., drift, chord rotatirai) is very limited. Subsequent response of the element is characterized by a strictly degrading behavior with significant shear strength reduction and a consequently loss of axial load-carrying capacity see Fig. 2a. 

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