Abstract Maintaining the minimum allowable distance between proximity welds has always been considered a subject of debate among design engineers, welding engineers/inspectors and fabricators/engineering contractors. The scattered nature guidelines available in codes standards for maintaining poses significant challenge procedure inspection criteria development process. This is especially criti...

Free spans or suspended spans normally occur in subsea pipelines due to the irregularity of seabed and byscouring phenomena around the installed non-buried pipeline. The hydrodynamic around the pipeline canlead to a vibration of the pipeline.This kind of vibration may cause fatigue damage to the pipeline. In orderto study the hydrodynamic around the pipeline, calculating the natural frequency o...

The internal inspection of corrosion in large natural gas pipelines is a fundamental task for the prevention possible failures. Photos and videos provide direct proof defects. However, implementation this technique limited by fast robot motion poor lighting conditions, with high-quality images being key to its success. In work, we developed gas-driven pipeline endoscopic (GDPER) visual inner wa...

Underwater wet welding is one of the most common repair measures for corroded offshore steel structures. Few studies have been carried out systematically concerned with mechanical properties of such welds, thus current design provisions rely heavily on limited experimental data on welds made underwater and design properties for corresponding welds made in air. This paper presents a series of ex...

A literature review of studies and researches has been attempted in the field of dissimilar metal welding. Dissimilar metal welds have numerous industrial applications in area of thermal power generation, chemical, petrochemical, automobile, aerospace industries and nuclear plants etc. The purpose of this paper is to review: (a) Dissimilar metal welds, their Metallurgical and Mechanical aspects...

To obtain satisfactory welds in positional laser beam welding, it is necessary to know how process parameters will influence the quality of welds in different welding positions. In this study, the titanium alloy Ti6Al4V sheets were laser welded in two vertical welding positions (vertical up and vertical down), and the appearance, porosity, strength, and ductility of the laser joints were evalua...

In the past, most small diameter pipe welds were radiographed for defects. However, radiography has significant limitations: safety and licensing issues, disruption to work schedules, chemical wastes, and poor detection of planar defects. Manual ultrasonics was permitted by some codes, but suffers from lack of recorded data and dependence on the operator’s skills. Automated ultrasonic testing (...

Strain-based design (SBD) plays an important role in pipeline and assessment of pipelines subjected to geo-hazards. Under such hazards, a pipe can be substantial plastic strains, leading tensile failure at locations girth weld flaws. For SBD, the finite element method (FEM) reliable tool calculate strain capacity (TSC) for better pipelines. This study aims investigate ductile fracture propertie...