An overview of glass fiber epoxy and polyethylene high density burst from capv (composite air pressure vessel)

Composite materials have numerous applications in the most varied areas of engineering as offshore, oil and gas industry, marine industries, aeronautics, and automaker. Used because they bring high rigidity and specific resistance, due to the advantages of being resistant to corrosion and having structural flexibility. The work is focused on fiberglass composites with epoxy matrix (FG) and no high-density polyethylene (HDPE) a decade after the incident. The approach was based in two stage, first on an investigation that took place on board of a semi-submersible drilling rig that operates offshore with a drilling capacity of 7500 meters in depth and a water depth of 2500 meters. a high pressure line that is connected to CAPV (composite air pressure vessel) that is part of to the high pressure system of the CMC (Crown mounted compensator). In a second stage, was took samples from CAPV to be analyzed, where impact tests (Charpy) were performed according to ASTM D6110-10 standard, flexion tests according to ASTM D790-17 standard, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) according to ASTM D3418-12 standard, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermogravimetric to have a more detailed study on the composite materials that made up those vessels, which are PEHD and FG with matrix epoxy. Showed the results of the investigation and finish the work with material analyses assays even after 10 years of manufacture and complications during the use of the vessels.