Collapse failure of textured subsea pipeline under external pressure; numerical and parametric study
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Al-Amarat, Feda'a
Karampour, Hassan
Alsanat, Husam
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The concept of pseudo-cylindrical concave polyhedral (PCCP) shell is adopted for subsea pipeline applications and termed as “textured pipe”. In this study, the collapse responses of proposed textured pipelines subjected to external pressure are studied experimentally and numerically and are compared to those of the conventional pipes. First, hyperbaric chamber test results of 3D-printed textured and conventional pipes are presented. The experimental results showed that the textured concept can provide a significant delay in collapse failure compared to the corresponding conventional pipe. Also, the average collapse pressure of textured pipes was found to be 80% greater than the conventional pipe, with same D/t ratio. By using the validated FE model, different collapse responses with practical range of D/t ratio between 13 and 50 are discussed, and a comprehensive parametric study is conducted. Finally, a new collapse pressure formula including the geometric and material parameters and the ovality is presented to predict the collapse pressure of the textured pipe. The study showed that the collapse pressure of the textured pipe is much less sensitive to initial ovality compared to corresponding conventional pipe and a textured pipe with α ≤ 45 and 5 ≤ N ≤ 8, can offer an optimum resilience to external pressure.
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Ocean Engineering
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266
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Ocean engineering
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Engineering, Marine
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Alrsai, M; Al-Amarat, F; Karampour, H; Alsanat, H, Collapse failure of textured subsea pipeline under external pressure; numerical and parametric study, Ocean Engineering, 2022, 266, pp. 112993