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Structural Integrity–Reliability Analysis of in-use Coal Handling Plants Through Energy Dissipation Techniques of Non-Destructive Testing: A Novel Experimental Study

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Non-destructive testing (NDT) is effective in detecting surface as well as intrinsic faults in structures during production or in-service service life without destroying the originality of the test specimen. It is a tool that ascertains the viability of potential, behind sceptically for current and future use of material. The structural strength of the coal handling plant is mitigating during its service life cycle of dispatching coal. Residual and service stresses, impact of coal, fatigue loading and corrosion due to detrimental environmental incongruities are the substantive reason behind its quality deterioration. A three-dimensional structure of the coal handling plant was made in Creo for analysing the actual load condition on the designed structures. Anomaly in between energy propagation through the test specimen is the principle of flaw detection which was generated during use. Ultrasonic flaw detection (UFD), liquid penetration test (LPT), ultrasonic thickness test (UTT), ultrasonic pulse velocity test (UPVT) and rebound hammer test (RHT) were done on the steel structure and concrete base of the coal handling plant for speculating their integrity of safety. Impediment and variation in the energy propagation are the substantive evidence of non-destructive testing predominantly. Reliability of complete structure was estimated, and expected life of bunker was ascertained for 20 years by applying Weibull distribution with the in situ NDT results.

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  1. Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India

    Mohd Ahtesham Hussain Siddiqui & Somnath Chattopadhyaya

  2. Coal India Limited, Western Coal Fields Limited, Saoner, Nagpur, India

    Mohd Ahtesham Hussain Siddiqui & Shahzad Akhtar

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, 144603, India

    Shubham Sharma

  4. Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering Department, University of Sharjah, P O Box 27272, Sharjah, UAE

    Mamdouh El Haj Assad

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Siddiqui, M.A.H., Akhtar, S., Chattopadhyaya, S. et al. Structural Integrity–Reliability Analysis of in-use Coal Handling Plants Through Energy Dissipation Techniques of Non-Destructive Testing: A Novel Experimental Study. Arab J Sci Eng 48, 3195–3208 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-022-07029-4

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