Fracture control - Offshore pipelines: New strain-based fracture mechanics equations including the effects of biaxial loading, mismatch and misalignment

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 649-658

  Østby, Erling ^a  

^a SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK DEPTH; CRACK LENGTH; PIPE DIAMETER; TENSILE RATIO;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STRAIN; YIELD STRESS;

OFFSHORE PIPELINES;

EID: 27744550857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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