Review Article Volume 3 Issue 4
Najafabad Islamic Azad University, Iran
Correspondence: Vahid Abdolvahab, PhD Student of Civil Engineering, Najafabad Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran
Received: July 14, 2017 | Published: September 20, 2017
Citation: Abdolvahab V. Corrosion control and reduction in sludge storing concrete tanks in wastewater treatment plants using the metal – ceramic FGM plates element. MOJ Civil Eng. 2017;3(4):318-324. DOI: 10.15406/mojce.2017.03.00074
Concrete is one of the oldest and most common key materials in the construction and maintenance of wastewater transitional structures, which is considered by the designers and contractors. Corrosive materials in wastewater such as hydrogen sulfide, etc. cause corrosion at the concrete level, which over time leads to reducing their strength and therefore concrete structures mechanism. On the other hand, the increasing advancement of using composites in various industries created the idea of creating a new generation of composite materials known as FGMs for the first time in 1984 in Japan. FGMs are composites, in which the microscopic properties change with the non-uniform, smooth, and steady distribution of its original composition. Therefore, these materials are usually in the category of inhomogeneous materials that are assumed to be isotropic. This paper aims to investigate the application of the structural element of metal – ceramic FGM plates to design the plate elements of the floor, wall, or ceiling in cylindrical and rectangular concrete tanks of wastewater treatment plants sludge storage in order to extend the life of structures against corrosion caused by wastewater instead of concrete tanks. In addition, the previous structural results of the application of metal–ceramic FGM plate s are the consumed elements used in the wall and floor slab on the support or on the substrate is elastic or Pasternak.
Keywords: sludge storing concrete tanks, concrete corrosion, FGMS, tank wall plate element, tank bottom plate element
With the development of machine life and due to ignoring other people interest, more types of pollution put every day the environment in serious danger. Wastewater is one of the causes of environmental pollution. Therefore, they should be collected and removed out of the cities. They initially should be refined and then, returned to circulation in nature. Shape, substance, and wastewater ducts are considered by designers depending on the type and amount of waste.1 The purpose of wastewater and transforming them into sustainable materials is disinfection and killing germs. All these things are done in the nature in a relatively long-term and close to several days automatically. The purpose of the construction of wastewater treatment plant and developing on the one hand, and accelerating the mentioned works and shortening the duration of refining up to several hours on the other hand, prevent contamination of natural water sources and the environment.2
The reason for using concrete in structures in wastewater transmission and treatment structures
Reinforced concrete pipes are the cheapest pipes in the sewerage network. They are easy to make and their application is economic and particularly suitable for diameters greater than 60cm. The static resistance of these pipes can be good depending on the calculation and design. The roughness coefficient of the inner wall of these pipes varies depending on their shape.1 Concrete has been considered as the most economical and the most important materials from designers to construct artificial wastewater treatment plants regarding the wastewater treatment plant structures (synthetic wastewater refining in mechanical, biological, and chemical methods) including tanks and wastewater timed storage tanks, wastewater transfer channels, pumping stations, etc. for artificial refining process of wastewater due to the relative strength of concrete structures in wastewater corrosion than other materials.
Evaluation of corrosion causes of concrete structures in wastewater environments
Nowadays, the optimized operation and maintenance of urban networks and water treatment plants aiming to increase the useful life of network services and treatment has become one of the challenges in the water and wastewater industry. Corrosion at most of old and operating concrete structures is in wastewater environments have led to traffic, social, and environmental problems. Repair of damaged concrete structures by traditional methods is very difficult. Therefore, new methods of preventing corrosion have long been running in developed countries.3
The types of Corrosion at concrete structures in the wastewater have been raised in the following:
FGMs are the new generation of composites, in which the microscopic properties change with the non-uniform, smooth, and steady distribution of its original composition. These changes may be in one dimension or in multiple dimensions. The two mentioned phases in this substance are not distinct from each other. There are two pure metal and ceramic levels in heat-retaining plate s that are a combination of ceramics and metal and produce a desired combination of these two materials between these two levels. In this case, the thermal and mechanical properties continuously change. The result of these gradual changes is a highly efficient production that meets all the requirements expected of such a structure. Thus, they are called substance with uneven thickness properties.4
The main use of FGMs in improving the mechanical and thermo-mechanical properties of components is as follows:
As mentioned, FGMs materials have different metallurgical structure. Therefore, they are considered as composite materials with microscopic heterogeneous properties, but continuous changes in the microstructure of FGMs materials makes them distinct from conventional composite materials. FGMs materials are made with conventional composite materials. Changes in FGMs substance is gradually and gradually is reduced from a substance and added to another substance. The most important advantage of this substance is that all the required properties such as flexibility and resistance to heat and corrosion exist in them without sacrificing one of them for another. Due to the required applications and functions, these materials are often made of two homogeneous substances usually a metal and a ceramic (Figure 1). Metal has properties such as ductility, high strength, stiffness, strength, and machining capabilities. On the other hand, ceramics have properties such as high strength to corrosion at wastewater substance.
Figure 1 Schematic of FGM plates.5
For the first time, Bewer & Duwez et al.,5 raised the idea of combining two different phases by changing the arrangement of each of the phases in the layer to improve the mechanical properties of the composites. Their idea was generally related to eliminating the weaknesses of composite materials in many of their application. However, until 1980 no research has been done on the design, construction, evaluation, and analysis of substance with the gradual changing structure. In the mid-1980s, the scientific name of FGMs was first given to this substance in Japan and a new arena was opened for the extensive research on this type of substance. Their goal was to produce a substance that can withstand the temperature of 2000Kas well as the thermal gradient 1000K in a thickness of less than 10mm. Since these materials are heterogeneous, conducting comprehensive studies in the fields of design, modeling, making, and evaluation was necessary and inevitable.7 At that time, a state-owned group in Japan predicted that the entry of Japan into the modern space research and development of these types of research depend on new materials. The three of scientists named Nino, Koizumi, and Hirray, started their research on the spaceship project,6 their studies showed that the applied structural components in the body of the spacecraft are affected by the extreme thermal loads. Therefore, it is necessary to consider two very important cases in combining and making the body infrastructures:
The extensive application of FGM materials is due to gradual changes of their properties because the mismatch problem in mechanical properties does not exist at the junction layers compared with the layered composite substance. This mismatch causes an increased willingness of separation in the layers under the extreme thermal loading. The residual stresses will be unavoidable due to the different thermal expansion coefficients of the layers. FGMs are widely used in the aerospace industry as well as in structures that are subjected to extreme changes in temperature and thermal shocks, such as thermoelectric devices used in energy conversion industry. Although this substance was originally designed for use in spacecraft structures and nuclear reactors, but in recent years found many applications including the connection of metal to ceramic, transplanting members to human, explosion engine components, magnetic means, cutting tools, fire extinguishers, polymer composites with high strength coating of combustion chamber of Rocket propellant, rocket launcher pocket primer, and making piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials.7
These materials are inhomogeneous. Therefore, their physical properties such as the modulus of elasticity and thermal conductivity vary. However, the structure of FGMs is such that the isotropic assumption is valid in most cases.
Generally, there are two different approaches to model changes in properties of these materials:
Various correlations have been so far proposed for modelling FGMs considering their type of structure. The dominant distribution in various studies for the made plate s by these materials, FGMs whose properties are only in terms of uneven plate thickness is defined as follows.
(1A)
(1B)
In which, P (Z) is a general feature such as modulus of elasticity or density. Pt and Pb, respectively, are the profile of the upper and lower sides of the plate, and h is the total thickness of the plate. V is the volume fraction of the legal side substance of the plate. As shown in Equation (1B), it is assumed in the form of a power distribution. N is a parameter that shows the substance distribution in the thickness. For example, the changes are linear if the number is equal to one and it will be a homogeneous substance with the features of the upper side. The lower side substance increases by increasing the N.2
The purpose of this section is to evaluate the conditions of using FGM plates with high corrosion resistance in wastewater environments as the wall and floor plate elements of concrete tanks. The intended FGM plates for using in the wall and floor elements of concrete tanks is a metal – ceramic composite plate with a gradual change in the thickness. The ceramic part is made of alumina and the metal part is made of aluminium. First, alumina corrosion is investigated in wastewater environments and aluminium corrosion is investigated in contact with air and water.
Aluminium oxide or alumina (Al2O3) is one of the important ceramic substance with a wide range of applications in various fields. Among the various and outstanding properties of alumina, the mechanical properties such as high compressive strength and high hardness as well as refractoriness can be mentioned.3
The maximum use of ceramic materials in wastewater environments is as follows:
Figure 2 Consumer glazed tiles with lining materials.13
Aluminium is a soft and lightweight metal, but strong. It has a matt silver – gray appearance with a thin layer of oxidation, which is formed by the collision of air at the surface. It is malleable, flexible, and bends easily. It is also very durable and anticorrosive. In addition, this non-magnetic element is the second malleable and the sixth ductile metal with no spark. Aluminium is the most applied metal after iron, which is important almost in all industry sectors whether in terms of quality or value. Pure aluminium is soft and weak, but it can create alloys with small amounts of copper, magnesium, manganese, silicon, and other elements. These alloys have a variety of useful properties. These important alloys make aircrafts and rockets.9
In recent years, a variety of structural types of research have been done due to the importance of the subject in the field of FGMs tank characteristics and behaviour as shown in (Figure 3).
Figure 3 Application of FGM plates in cubic tank walls in wastewater treatment plants.18
This section reviews the previous studies on the FGM plate element in tank walls against hydrostatic forces of the fluid and the force caused by disturbance of the fluid perpendicular to the middle – cubic and cylindrical tank plate (Figure 4). Bakhasheshi & Khorshidi et al.,14 examined the free vibration of the rectangular plate made of functionally graded materials in cross contact with the limited turbulence fluid and they have applied simply animated and non-animated support assuming the third order theory from harmonic sine functions for the rectangular tank wall.
Figure 4 Bottom FGM plate on elastic Pasternak subjected to mechanical loads.28
By examining the numerical results, it was determined that:
The vibration frequency will be less by increasing the depth of the fluid.
Tahani &Talebian.,16 analyzed the FGM conical tanks under mechanical loads symmetrical with two cantilevers support through the two-dimensional finite element method. According to the results, it was observed that the stress distribution in a cylindrical container made of pure metal or ceramic is only correlated with the tank geometry and load while the distribution of temperature stress in cylindrical tank made of pure metal or ceramic is only correlated with the tank geometry and load, materials, properties changes method. This dependence is to control the stress and temperature distribution. In addition, the use of FGMs in the construction of cylindrical tanks reduces the environmental stresses on the inner surface. The effect of this condition is very noticeable in heat loading than the mechanical loading. Tohidi et al.,17 optimized the stress in the spherical tanks made of FGMs plates under heat and pressure loads. In this paper, an analytical solution was used to calculate the radial stresses of spherical tanks made of thick FGM plates. Finally, a general model was obtained to get the radius and circumference stresses in thick-walled spherical tanks with FGM materials.
Safari et al.,18 evaluated the analytical method to study the dynamic response of a thick-walled cylindrical under mechanical shock so the Laplace domain equation was obtained using the series of cylindrical targeted and dynamic response in the time domain by using theoretical analysis of the residuals. Isvand Zibaei et al.,19 investigated the effect of fixed-fixed and fixed-free boundary conditions for FGM cylindrical shell vibrations consisting of stainless steel and nickel with reinforced ring based on the third order theory of shear deformation. They concluded that the reinforced ring affects the frequencies. This effect will have the highest value compared to the ring and the boundary conditions of the cylindrical shell. When the reinforced ring moves from the shell centre to the bottom of the shell, the natural frequencies are reduced. Therefore, the natural frequency curve will be symmetrical around the centre of the shell. This symmetry is at both ends of the shell around the symmetrical shell centre.
This section reviews the previous studies on the FGM plates in the bottom of the tank (the ceramic top plate ) against the static forces of due to a uniform fluid pressure on the bottom (perpendicular to the middle-plate ) with edge supports for cubic and cylindrical tanks. For this purpose, the conducted studied on the rectangular and circular plates loaded under different conditions should be investigated. Abdolvahab.,20 studied the Galerkin method to investigate the static behaviour of FGM plates used in ceiling and floor cubic tanks subjected to uniform uniaxial compressive loading under different boundary conditions. Heidari.,21 examined the critical load of a circular FGM plate with clamped edges under various mechanical load on three theories of 1. Classic 2: The first order shear deformation, and Higher-order shear deformation. It was concluded that the critical load depends on the parameters of volume fraction, thickness, and radius so that increasing the plate’s ratio of thickness to radius increases the mechanical strength. Generally, the high order theories responses are more accurate than the first-order and the classic theory.
Shareiyat et al.,22 evaluated the non-linear analysis of the hollow circular plate deflection of functionally graded materials with variable properties in both the transverse and radial strain of the classical theory and Fan Carmen nonlinear shift –strain relationship. It was concluded that generally when the changes of properties are considered in both the radial and thickness directions, the maximum deflection is reduced by increasing the volume fraction modulus in the thickness and radial direction and its location moves towards the interior radius. Jafari & Jandaqian.,23 examined the forced vibrations of a circular FGM plate based on the classical theory and simple and clamped boundary conditions on the edge of the plate using the Bessel equation. They concluded that the volume fraction highly affects the deflection and frequency of the plate by increasing the volume fraction module of the plate, deflection, and natural frequency. Shoshtari et al.,24 discussed the vibration of graded rectangular plates under the local broad mass and simple support using Hamilton's based on the third order shear deformation theory. They concluded that non-dimensioned frequency of the plate reduces by increasing the ratio of length to thickness and ratio of the mass and the frequency increases by increasing the ratio of length to width and the effect of the mass. However, the frequency decreases whatever the mass gets closer to the middle of the plate and Sigmund graded plate indicates more rigidity that increases the frequencies.
This section reviews the previous studies on the FGM plate element in the bottom of the tank (ceramic side top of the plate – (Figure 4) against static forces caused by the uniform pressure of the fluid on the bottom located on different substrates such as elastic, Pasternak, plastic, or middle supports under FGM plates for cubic and cylindrical tanks. It is enough to investigate the conducted static analysis on the rectangular and circular plates with support conditions on different substrates. Rezaei & Jahangiri.,25 evaluated the dynamic and static instability as well as nonlinear vibrations of FG plates with the elastic substrate under stimulated parametric of a force exposed to harmonic forces inside a plate based on the classical theory and using the theory of Wen-Carmen and the Hamilton large deformations. It was found that the natural frequency increases by increasing the parameters of the elastic substrate and dynamic instability occurred at higher excitation frequencies. The plate is stimulated by the parametric excitation frequency in a certain resonance range so that the system will have two unstable and stable nontrivial periodic solution by provoking the setting parameter in a part of this provoking range.
In another part of the resonance range, the system will have a stable periodic nontrivial solution. Moreover:
Bazkiaei & Tarzjani.,26 examined the FGM plate free vibration on the Winkler elastic substrate using differential quadrature element method. They found that elastic substrate with FGM plate makes changes in the modal parameters such as natural frequency. Rahimi et al.,27 extracted the overall equation of the cylindrical thick-walled ax symmetric made of FG heterogeneous materials using the theory of plane elasticity. It was observed that the environmental stress reduces in one half and increases in another half for every positive or negative heterogeneity factor. The radial stress increases and the radial displacement decreases for each positive heterogeneity factor. The radial stress decreases and the radial displacement increases for each negative heterogeneity factor. Further changes can be observed in the larger absolute value of the heterogeneity factor. Thus, about 20% change in the behaviour of homogeneous material is seen for +1,-1, which can be used depending on the need for displacement or tension in the heterogeneous cylinder.
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