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THE SHORTER TIME PREDICTION METHOD OF LONG-TERM PROPERTY OF GFRP PIPES

LIANG Na1,2, ZHU Si-rong2*, CHEN Jian-zhong2   

  1. 1.School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Xianning 430070, China;
    2.School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 437100, China
  • Received:2017-02-16 Online:2017-07-28 Published:2017-07-28

Abstract: The certification of glass-fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) piping systems is regulated by normative standards in which test series of 10,000 h are needed to predict the residual property of the expected life (normally, 50 years). In this paper, the 1-4-4 combined optimal scheme for prediction of long-term property of GFRP pipe is proposed. This system involves using orthogonal design and test schemes lasting under 10,000 h. Experimental results for long-term ring-bending strain (Sb) of GFRP pipes from the standard test procedure indicate that this system is practical and effective. The estimation error when using the proposed method was consistently less than 5.24% as compared to the standard method.

Key words: GFRP pipes, prediction of long-term property, log-log regression model, optimal scheme, the shorter time prediction

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