Experimental and Simulation Stress Analysis of PVC Pipe Under Different Operational Temperatures

The Poly-Vinyl Chloride is widely used by manufacturers for different purposes the most famous and important of which is the PVC Pipe, what makes the PVC suitable for manufacturers, engineers and designers is its low cost, high durability, good strength to weight ratio and low installation costs. While using as a pipe, it has to pass fluids at wide range of temperatures, in a normal house this temperature ranges from −10 ℃ to 70 ℃ in winters and summer respectively. The pipes are sometimes used in a position such that a net tensile force acts upon, so strength analysis of PVC pipe at different operational temperatures is important. The Experimental setups are sometimes costly to perform and sometimes it’s not suitable to achieve the desired conditions such as extreme low and extreme high temperatures, thus simulation software are introduced for such purposes, in order to validate the results of simulation software, ANSYS Workbench is used for the strength analysis of PVC pipe with same operational conditions as that of experimental setup and different Important factors such as elastic region, necking, plastic deformation, and yield strength, percentage elongation and strength at the point of fracture is obtained from both models, the results so obtained are compared, it is found that the results are in strong agreement with a relative error less than 2% on average.