Fracture Control Offshore Pipelines - Advantages of using direct calculations in fracture assessments of pipelines

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 675-681

  Thaulow, Christian ^a   Jayadevan, K R ^b   Skallerud, Bjørn ^a   Berg, Espen ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Government Engineering College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ASSESSMENT; GIRTH WELDS; PIPE GEOMETRY; SURFACE CRACKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DUCTILITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

OFFSHORE PIPELINES;

EID: 27744481975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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