Designing of Boiler Shell's Longitudinal Butt Joint for Materials

Heavy machinery, which is essential for mass production, is the primary focus of manufacturing and production engineering. A boiler, which is used in power plants to produce steam, is one such part. In order to produce steam, fuel is burned in a furnace to bring water to a boil inside the boiler assembly. Liquid water is forced to flow through pipes that come into touch with the heat produced in the furnace. Water eventually turns into steam as a result of this heat raising its temperature above its boiling point. The boiler shell, which was constructed with the aid of lap and butt joints, is where this steam is kept. The longitudinal joint of the boiler shell is a double strap, double riveted butt joint. The boiler joint's static structural analysis will be carried out analytically and with the aid of ANSYS simulation in this dissertation project. The simulation will be validated by comparing the outcomes of both. Some new materials will be tested in place of traditional low carbon steel after the validation is finished. The boiler joint will be optimized in this manner. The existing literature on mechanical engineering machine design will be used to complete the mathematical analysis. Structural steel, sometimes known as mild steel, will be the traditional material employed. Aluminum alloy, Inconel materials, and Epoxy Carbon will all be used in the ANSYS simulation. Following that, a comparison will be made between the outcomes of the simulation and the mathematical computations. The double strap double riveted butt joint model will be created in CATIA V5-6 R2017 and then exported to ANSYS in order to finish the simulation work. ANSYS 19.2 will be used to finish the analysis portion.