Accounting for flaws in the burst strength of OCTG

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Applied Technology Workshop on Risk Based Design of Well Casing and Tubing 1998, ATW 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Stewart, G ^a,b   Klever, F J ^b  

^a Lloyd's Register EMEA   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell Int E and P   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; DUCTILE FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; PETROLEUM PIPELINES; TUBING;

CAPACITY PREDICTION; FAILURE MECHANISM; INSPECTION QUALITY; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PART-THROUGH CRACKS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; RELIABILITY-BASED; STATISTICAL DATAS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 85088406416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/48330-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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