Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100195
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$360,000.00
Summary
Using Sandwich Pipe for Pipeline Vibration Control. Pipelines are important structures but are vulnerable to different types of damage. This damage is often associated with pipeline vibration. It is important to control adverse vibrations to reduce the risk of catastrophic damage. This project proposes using sandwich pipe to suppress different sources of vibrations that may be experienced during the lifetime of the pipeline. Analytical, numerical and experimental investigations will be carried o ....Using Sandwich Pipe for Pipeline Vibration Control. Pipelines are important structures but are vulnerable to different types of damage. This damage is often associated with pipeline vibration. It is important to control adverse vibrations to reduce the risk of catastrophic damage. This project proposes using sandwich pipe to suppress different sources of vibrations that may be experienced during the lifetime of the pipeline. Analytical, numerical and experimental investigations will be carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method. The project aims to develop direct applications for designing pipelines to suppress different sources of vibration and to guarantee the safety of pipelines.Read moreRead less
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE110100189
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$190,000.00
Summary
Integrated magnetic resonance gas and oil analyser. Magnetic resonance has enormous potential in a range of industrial applications. This facility will develop these capabilities and contribute unique insights into liquid and gas transport in systems ranging from rock cores to reverse osmosis membranes used in desalination.
Development of novel inerter-based damper for platform vibration control. This project aims to develop a novel inerter-based damper to mitigate the excessive vibrations of offshore floating platforms (OFP), which are widely used in the offshore industry for oil exploration. Harsh environmental loads such as wind and waves can induce excessive vibrations to OFPs and endanger their safety and stability. This project aims to develop a novel inerter-based damper that can produce a considerable appar ....Development of novel inerter-based damper for platform vibration control. This project aims to develop a novel inerter-based damper to mitigate the excessive vibrations of offshore floating platforms (OFP), which are widely used in the offshore industry for oil exploration. Harsh environmental loads such as wind and waves can induce excessive vibrations to OFPs and endanger their safety and stability. This project aims to develop a novel inerter-based damper that can produce a considerable apparent mass that is much larger than its physical mass through an amplifying mechanism by translating the linear motion into high-speed rotational motion, which can significantly reduce the mass and cost of the damper. Benefits of the project include more economical and safer OFP designs, which are expected to improve the competitiveness of Australian pillar oil and gas industries.Read moreRead less
Building Australia's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry on Solid Foundations: characterising multilayered soils for offshore foundation design. This project aims to characterise soils with multilayers for offshore foundation designs. The commonly used site investigation tools, cone, T-bar and ball penetrometers, will be studied using advanced large deformation finite element analysis and novel centrifuge technics. The outcome of this study will provide guidelines to interpret soil layer information a ....Building Australia's Offshore Oil and Gas Industry on Solid Foundations: characterising multilayered soils for offshore foundation design. This project aims to characterise soils with multilayers for offshore foundation designs. The commonly used site investigation tools, cone, T-bar and ball penetrometers, will be studied using advanced large deformation finite element analysis and novel centrifuge technics. The outcome of this study will provide guidelines to interpret soil layer information and soil design parameters from site investigation data, that is, penetrometers’ penetration resistance profiles. The guidelines will fill the knowledge gap in this area and will provide offshore design engineers with more reliable soil parameters for safer and more economical foundation designs.Read moreRead less
Pressure waves on the mechanics of earthquakes and faulting. This project aims to decipher the physics of faulting and earthquakes from damage zones around seismogenic faults. It will examine a mechanism for instability in solids: volumetric collapse due to a dissipative pressure wave. This pressure wave may control damage-zone geometry and relate to earthquake stress and rock material properties. The project will research the instability through theoretical, laboratory and field studies. Antici ....Pressure waves on the mechanics of earthquakes and faulting. This project aims to decipher the physics of faulting and earthquakes from damage zones around seismogenic faults. It will examine a mechanism for instability in solids: volumetric collapse due to a dissipative pressure wave. This pressure wave may control damage-zone geometry and relate to earthquake stress and rock material properties. The project will research the instability through theoretical, laboratory and field studies. Anticipated outcomes include advances in earthquake and fault prediction, tools to determine the stress state and material properties of Earth’s crust, and knowledge of a class of solid instabilities.Read moreRead less