Integrated analysis approach for industrial structures and piping

加拿大经济严重依赖资源型产业。这反映在加拿大工业石化、发电、合成油制造厂以及石油和天然气炼油厂的大规模扩张中。通常，一个工业工厂由几平方公里的大面积内的多个处理单元组成。多条高架管道在工厂内的不同处理单元之间延伸数百米。纵观其运行轨迹，管道由大量的模块化柔性弯矩框架钢结构支撑。在这一背景下，拟议的研究旨在开发一种分析和设计工具，用于高架管道系统和在单一综合模型中支撑钢结构。拟议的分析工具将a)减少可能向大气中释放有毒化学品的管道故障的风险，从而实现积极的环境影响；b)为设计者提供全面和实际的基础，以便在知情的基础上在这些结构的安全性和经济性之间取得平衡；c)加拿大作为结构钢和钢管的生产国，受益于对其行为的更好了解，并间接促进这些加拿大产品的使用。

The Canadian economy is heavily reliant on resource-based industries. This is reflected in the large expansions in industrial petrochemical, power generation, synthetic oil manufacturing plants, and oil and gas refineries in Canada. Typically, an industrial plant consists of multiple processing units within a large area of the order of a few square kilometres. Multiple elevated pipelines run for hundreds of meters between various processing units within the plant. Throughout their trajectories, pipelines are supported by a large number of modular flexible moment frame steel structure. Within this context, the proposed research aims at developing an analysis and design tool for elevated pipeline systems and supporting steel structures within a single integrated model. The proposed analysis tool will a) realize a positive environmental impact by reducing the risk of pipeline failures that can release toxic chemicals into the atmosphere; b) provide designers a thorough and practical basis on which to strike an informed balance between the safety and economy for these structures; and c) benefit Canada, as a manufacturer of structural steel and steel pipes, from an improved understanding of their behaviour, and indirectly promoting the use of these Canadian products.