Internal Pressure Carrying Capacity for Different Loading Modes of Filament-Wound Pipes from Glass Fiber-reinforced Epoxy Composites

Abstract

Development of a low-cost filament-winding machine is initially described in this paper. The filament-winding machine was used to fabricate composite pipes and the materials used were woven glass fiber and epoxy resin. The pipes were tested under three loading modes, namely mode I (hoop pressure loading), mode II (biaxial pressure loading), and mode III (biaxial pressure with axial compressive loading). The results reveal that filament-wound composite pipes should be wound at 75° for hoop pressure loading (mode I), 55° for biaxial pressure loading (mode II), and 85° for biaxial pressure with axial compressive loading (mode III).

Keywords:

• Composite pipe
• Filament winding
• Internal pressure
• Pressure carrying capacity

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work is supported by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI, IRPA Project No. 09-02-04-0824-EA001). The authors would like to thank Dr. Y.A. Khalid and Dr. T.S. Younis for their contribution.