Fracture analysis of girth welded pipelines with 3D embedded cracks subjected to biaxial loading conditions

• Main Authors: Yi, Dake., Xiao, Zhong Min., Idapalapati, Sridhar., Kumar, Shashi Bhushan.
• 其他作者: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2013
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102357; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11175

Steel pipelines used for oil and gas transportation are joined by girth welding and welds may contain weld imperfections/defects such as lack of fusion, under-cuts, porosity, slag inclusion etc. of certain height and length at certain location along the longitudinal direction of the weld. During the...