Fracture control - Offshore pipelines: Probabilistic fracture assessment of surface cracked ductile pipelines using analytical equations

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 641-647

  Sandvik, Andreas ^a   Østby, Erling ^b   Naess, Arvid ^a   Sigurdsson, Gudfinnur ^c   Thaulow, Christian ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^c Division of Offshore Installations   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUCTILE TEARING; INTERNAL PRESSURE; LINE-PIPES; THICKNESS RATIOS;

BENDING MOMENTS; DUCTILITY; FRACTURE; PROBABILITY; STRAIN;

OFFSHORE PIPELINES;

EID: 27744557159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67517     Document Type: Conference Paper

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