PRESENTATION ON

ANALYSIS OF GASKETED FLANGES FOR

PRELOAD AND OPERATING CONDITIONS
 CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION
 LITERATURE SURVEY
 OBJECTIVE
 METHODOLOGY
 EXPECTED COST
 EXPECTED OUTCOME

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 INTRODUCTION

Flange is a component used to connect tubular members in piping

systems, a flange is a disc, collar or ring.

The purpose of this is providing increased support for strength,

blocking off a pipeline or implementing the attachment of more
items.

Flanges are affected by the varying forces, pressure, temperature

and an environmental effect because of which leakages occurs in the
connection. So sealing of a connection must be analyzed.

Basic components of flange connection:

 Flange
Gasket
Bolts 3
Example for welded flange

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 LITERATURE SURVEY
T. Sawa [1]
 analyzed the distribution of contact stresses which governs the
sealing performance on a three body contact problem, using an
axis-symmetrical three dimensional theory of elasticity.
 The effects of the stiffness and the thickness of raised face metallic
gaskets on the contact stresses and the effective gasket seating width
are shown by numerical calculations.
 Moreover stresses produced in hub, load factor and max stress
caused in bolts are analyzed.

Muhsen Al-Sannaa and Abdul Malik [2]

presented numerical results obtained using Finite Element Analysis
(FEA) in studying large diameter welded neck steel flanges under
different loading conditions.
 The results showed the effect of the clamping pressure, internal
pressure, axial end load, temperature effect. 5
 Clamping pressure is a determinate factor for the sealing condition.
Yasumasa Shoji and Satoshi Nagata [3]
 Developed a method to model non linear gasket by using the
elements available in ANSYS
Concepts and the procedure of the modelling were introduced.

M.Abid and D.H.Nash [4]

 Made a 2D non linear finite element study for both gasketed and
non-gasketed bolted flange pipe joints.
Recommendations were made for a best fit flange model for static
load condition with ‘zero-leak’ sealing in a flange joint.
Presented the results of a parametric study of the behaviour of
metal-to-metal contact flanges that have different surface profiles.

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 OBJECTIVES
By referring to the literature survey we have found out these are the
objectives of our work:

 To calculate the combined shear stress (x-y direction) and preload

force in a gasketed metallic flange by ASME method.

To analyze the ASME results by FEA approach.

To analyze the gasketed metallic flange for combined shear stress by
varying the flange thickness by FEA.

To analyze the gasketed metallic flange for combines shear stress by
varying the number of bolts by FEA.

To compare the results of the flange for different flange thickness
and different number of bolts.
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 METHODOLOGY
GENERAL DISCRIPTION OF FINITE ELEMENT METHOD:
 The finite element method is a numerical method used to obtain
approximate solutions of boundary value problems in engineering.
In this method given problem or domain in converted or divided into
smaller regions called elements.
These elements are interconnected at specified joints called nodes.
These are points where the properties are to be determined for a
element.

STEPS INVOLVED IN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD:

 Discretization of the structure.
Selection of proper interpolation or displacement model.
Derivation of element matrices and vectors.
Assemblage of element equations to obtain equilibrium equation.
Applying boundary conditions. 8
Solution of all unknown values.
STEPS INVOLVED IN FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS:
 Pre-process or modelling the structure.
 Analysis.
Post processing.

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 EXPECTED OUTCOMES
 Obtain a best suited flange thickness and number of bolts
required under the given conditions.

Flange configuration which has the least combine shear stress

induced.

This can help in the research and production of flanges which

are best suited for different conditions.

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THANK YOU

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