Significance of HAZ softening on strain concentration and crack driving force in pipeline girth welds

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 385-393

  Liu, Ming ^a   Wang, Yong Yi ^a   Horsley, David ^b  

^a ENGINEERING MECHANICS CORPORATION OF COLUMBUS   (United States)

^b TRANSCANADA PIPELINES LIMITED   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSION DEFECTS; GIRTH WELDS; STRAIN CONCENTRATION; TENSILE RATIO; BIAXIAL STRESS; LONGITUDINAL STRAINS;

DUCTILITY; ELASTIC MODULI; HARDENING; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE; STRAIN; TOUGHNESS; CRACK INITIATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OFFSHORE PIPELINES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRESS ANALYSIS;

STEEL; WELDS;

EID: 27744501623     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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