Fracture control - Offshore pipelines experimental studies on the effect of crack depth and asymmetric geometries on the ductile tearing resistance

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 731-740

  Nyhus, Bård ^a   Østby, Erling ^a   Knagenhjelm, Hans Olav ^b   Black, Scott ^c   Røstadsand, Per Arne ^d  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c TECHNIP   (United States)

^d Technip Offshore Norge AS ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE CONTROL; GEOMETRY CONSTRAINTS; SINGLE EDGE NOTCH TENSION (SENT); WALL THICKNESSES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CRACKS; DUCTILITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

OFFSHORE PIPELINES;

EID: 27744563986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2005-67532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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