Developments in methods for assessing the remaining strength of corroded pipelines

NACE - International Corrosion Conference Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chauhan, V ^a   Espiner, R ^b   Swankie, T D ^a   Wood, I ^c  

^a Advantica Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^c Electricore Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

ASME B31G; Burst test; Combined loading; Corrosion; Defect interaction; Fatigue; Finite element analysis; High strength; Low toughness; LPC; Pipeline; Remaining strength; RSTRENG

Indexed keywords

ASME B31G; BURST TEST; COMBINED LOADING; DEFECT INTERACTION; FATIGUE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HIGH STRENGTH; LOW TOUGHNESS; LPC; REMAINING STRENGTH; RSTRENG;

CORROSION; CORROSION FATIGUE; DEFECTS; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIPELINES; RESEARCH; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 69249083189     PISSN: 03614409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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