...Guang Yin; Muk Chen Ong; Naiquan Ye Hydrodynamic forces on small diameter subsea pipelines and cables placed near seabed are important for their on-bottom stability design. In offshore environments, these pipelines are usually subjected to extreme wave conditions. The present study investigates...

...Yihan Xing; Muk Chen Ong; Tor Hemmingsen; Kjell Einar Ellingsen; Lorents Reinås Subsea pipelines and umbilicals are used for the transportation of fluids and electrical power between subsea installations and floating production units (FPUs). The installation and maintenance of these systems can...

... Offshore safety Offshore structures Control Pipelines Offshore reliability Structural reliability of aging offshore steel platforms is decreased due to defects and deterioration over time. Description of corrosion in the corrosive sea environment and its variations over time is highly...

... ] for Bohai bay wave data, and DNV-GL standards [ 4 , 5 ] for the engineering guidance. Some handbooks present general guidance for offshore structures safety and reliability analysis [ 6 – 9 ]. Design of offshore structures Offshore structures Structural safety Risk analysis Pipelines 23...

... received January 31, 2018; published online March 14, 2018. Assoc. Editor: Carlos Guedes Soares. 15 04 2017 31 01 2018 Computational mechanics Dynamics of structures Offshore safety Offshore structures Design Pipelines Offshore reliability Offshore platforms play...

... Structural safety System integrity assessment Moorings Cable dynamics Risk analysis Fracture reliability Control Pipelines Reliability engineering is not commonly applied to subsea structures design, more specific in the design of flexible risers, as the deterministic approach drives...

... 8, 2018. Editor: Lance Manuel. 13 09 2014 07 12 2017 Offshore structures Structural safety Risk analysis Pipelines According to Nielsen and Sørensen [ 1 ], the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs of offshore wind turbines are major contributors to the cost...

... a great influence on the movement of the vertical pipeline system [ 3 ]. Therefore, the PLS lifting method analyzed in this paper focuses on the hydraulic lifting method. The CLB lifting method employs a line attached with the specifically designed buckets to lift the minerals from the seabed...

... Reliability based codes Offshore structures Pipelines Offshore reliability Reliability based guideliens Copyright © 2017 by ASME 2017 0892-7219/2017/139(3)/031601/11/ $25.00 ...

... Council of Norway, Strategy Document 2006. [3] Barrette , P. , 2011 , “ Offshore Pipeline Protection Against Seabed Gouging By Ice: An Overview ,” Cold Reg. Sci. Technol. , 69 ( 1 ), pp. 3 – 20 . 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.06.007 [4] Abdalla , B. , Jukes , P. , Eltaher...

... Pipelines Offshore reliability Among a number of factors, the reliability of an equipment unit depends on its operating conditions. The reliability of oil and gas (O&G) exploration and production plants has major effects on production availability, operational and maintenance costs...

... Structural safety Design Pipelines Risk analysis Offshore reliability Analysis and design of offshore MDS are very challenging. They have complicated structural arrangements, different materials are used to build them, sophisticated mathematical models are used to calculate their response...

... 06 2015 11 03 2016 Offshore safety Offshore structures Structural safety Risk analysis Pipelines Offshore reliability Natural gas has emerged as a clean energy with a low capex in recent years [ 1 ]. The International Energy Agency has predicted that the demand for natural...

.... Assoc. Editor: Colin Chun Fai Leung. 30 06 2014 01 10 2015 Fatigue Offshore safety Probabilistic models Offshore structures Risers Structural safety System integrity assessment Cable dynamics Moorings Fracture reliability Control Forces Motions Pipelines Risk...

... received August 21, 2015; published online September 22, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Colin Chun Fai Leung. 12 03 2015 21 08 2015 Design of offshore structures Fatigue Offshore structures Fracture reliability Pipelines Control Fatigue is a process in which damage accumulates...

... 2015 27 07 2015 Design of offshore structures Offshore safety Reliability based codes Offshore structures Structural safety Pipelines Risk analysis Offshore reliability Reliability based guideliens Definition of LDE has been a topic of care from the start of construction...

...Jeroen Van Wittenberghe; Patrick De Baets; Wim De Waele; Wouter Ost; Matthias Verstraete; Stijn Hertelé Pipes and tubular members are used in offshore applications as structural elements, such as columns or in transport pipelines, risers, etc. When subjected to dynamic loads, weld defects...

...Feng Yuan; Zhen Guo; Lingling Li; Lizhong Wang The S-lay method has been widely used in pipeline installation from shallow water to deep water for decades. In this paper, a novel numerical model for analyzing pipelines in the S-lay problem is proposed to investigate the overall configuration...

...Weiwei Yu; Pedro M. Vargas; Dale G. Karr Appendix G of the ASME B31 pipeline and piping codes addresses the pressure containment capacity of pipelines and vessels with locally corroded sections. However, the ability of corroded sections to carry moment, for example, in thermal loops...

...Muk Chen Ong; Torbjørn Utnes; Lars Erik; Dag Myrhaug; Bjørnar Pettersen Flow mechanisms around a two-dimensional (2D) circular marine pipeline close to a flat seabed have been investigated using the 2D unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) equations with a standard high Reynolds number k...