Modular Casing Tensioner Platform Frame Kit Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing casing tensioner platform frames have fixed structures with non-removable components, leading to high transportation and installation costs and safety risks due to welding challenges in offshore environments with temperature and humidity variations.
Innovation Solution
A modular casing tensioner platform frame kit with prefabricated components, including frame components, corner connectors, and rod connections, allowing for assembly and disassembly without welding, enabling field assembly and reducing transportation and installation costs while ensuring quality and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If components are combined in a non-removable manner (welding) to form a monolithic casing tensioner platform frame, then structural strength and stability are improved, but transportation cost and installation complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The casing tensioner platform frame is divided into multiple removable components including corner connectors, front beams, lateral beams, posts, and rod assemblies. These segmented components can be transported separately and assembled on-site using connection brackets and fastening mechanisms, eliminating the need for welding while reducing transportation and installation costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The design enables components to be disassembled and reused. The corner connectors with connection brackets allow rods and beams to be removed and reassembled, facilitating component recovery and reuse, which reduces long-term costs and improves ease of manufacture.
2Ease of manufacture
If components are transported separately and welded at field, then transportation cost is reduced, but welding quality and safety are significantly affected due to harsh offshore environment
Solution Approach 1:
The welding process is replaced with a mechanical connection system. Corner connectors equipped with connection brackets use fastening mechanisms (bolts, pins, or interlocking features) to join rods and beams mechanically, eliminating the need for welding in harsh offshore environments while maintaining connection reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
Connection brackets serve as intermediary components between rods and beams. These brackets provide a standardized interface that facilitates easy mechanical attachment and detachment, replacing direct welding joints and enabling reliable assembly without exposure to environmental hazards.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a fixed structure with non-removable components is used, then structural stability is improved, but adaptability and ease of maintenance are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The structure transitions from a fixed monolithic design to a dynamic modular system. Components can be assembled, disassembled, and reconfigured using corner connectors and connection brackets, allowing the structure to adapt to different operational requirements while maintaining stability through proper mechanical joining.
Solution Approach 2:
Corner connectors and connection brackets serve as universal interface components that can join multiple types of structural elements (rods, beams, posts). This multi-functional connection system provides both structural stability and adaptability, allowing the same components to be used in various configurations.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a casing tensioner platform frame kit. The kit comprises frame components, corner connectors, rod components and rod connection components. The frame components and the corner connectors form a hexahedral frame. The rod components are fixed on the front planes and lateral planes of the hexahedral frame via the rod connection components. The frame components, corner connectors, rod components and rod connection components are all removable. Embodiments of the present invention also disclose a casing tensioner platform frame. The casing tensioner platform frame kit and the casing tensioner platform frame assembled by the kit provided by the present invention may be easily assembled or disassembled. The assembly or disassembly is implemented via prefabricated mounting components without any welding. The casing tensioner platform frame kit may be transported in the manner of components and be assembled at field. The cost of transportation and installation is significantly reduced while the quality and safety of the product is ensured.


