Predicting the fatigue life of long dents in petroleum pipelines

Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-9

  Rinehart, Adam J ^a   Keating, Peter B ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESIDUAL BENDING STRESSES;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RESIDUAL STRESSES;

PETROLEUM PIPELINES;

EID: 0036442227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2002-28015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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