Reliability analysis of hydrogen storage composite pressure vessel with two types of random-interval uncertainties

Due to the uncertainty of structure and material parameters, reliability analysis of hydrogen storage composite pressure vessel (CPV) is an important issue. In this paper, reliability analysis of hydrogen storage CPV is carried out based on kriging surrogate model with two types of random-interval uncertainties. First, progressive failure behavior is analyzed based on finite element model (FEM) of CPV. Second, the kriging model is built to surrogate the burst pressure. Then, global sensitivity analysis is conducted using Sobol method. Finally, uncertainty analysis and reliability analysis of CPV are carried out with two types of random-interval uncertainties. The results show that longitudinal tensile strength, thicknesses of the hoop layers and the helical layers are important factors of the CPV burst. Besides, the reliability of CPV is low (0.048) with random-interval uncertainties, which should be improved to increase the safety of CPV. The proposed method provides a general solution to the reliability analysis of CPV with two types of random-interval un-certainties, which would co-exist in the hydrogen storage CPV.(c) 2023 Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.