Carbon dioxide corrosion has been widely studied in the field and laboratory. It is recognized that flow regime and metallurgy are important factors that influence in-situ corrosion rates but there are relatively few documented case studies that are able to separate the individual contributions of corrosion, flow regime and metallurgy on the observed corrosion damage. This paper deals with fail...

Offshore pipelines used for oil and gas transportation are often buried to avoid damage from fishing activities and to provide thermal insulation. Thermal expansion and contraction of the pipeline during operation can lead to lateral or upheaval buckling. A safe buried pipeline design must take into account a reliable evaluation of soil uplift resistance and pipe embedment depth. While the cost...

Three-dimensional finite element modeling of residual stresses in a girth-welded pipe is presented in this paper, with an emphasis on modeling procedures for the global residual stress characteristics. The shell element model with a heat source moving along the circumferential joint is demonstrated to be cost effective and capable of predicting the global residual stress features. Transient res...

Abstract To investigate the influence of global plastic deformations on girth weld defect tolerance in pipelines, a parametric finite element model has been developed. This paper provides an experimental validation of the model. It describes the test setup and instrumentation used for the evaluation of plastic strain fields around a notch in a tension loaded non-welded X65 mini wide plate. LVDT...

determination of allowable free span length plays a crucial role in design of offshore pipelines. the seabed intervention cost and safety of an offshore pipelines project are largely influenced by pipelines free spanning during the project life time. different criteria are proposed by both the current designing guidelines and researchers there is however lack of comprehensive assessment of inde...