Fatigue study on an offshore pipeline with a 3-D surface crack

• Main Author: Tan, Lawrence Zhi Hao
• Other Authors: Xiao Zhongmin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering::Mechanics and dynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/140802
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Over the years, demand for long distance offshore pipelines to transport oil and gases has been increasing steadily due to the rising cost of energy consumption. To build an economical offshore pipeline, carbon steels are normally utilised with considerable plastic deformation capacity. The use of c...