Upheaval Buckling Analysis of Buried Offshore Pipelines under High Temperature and High Pressure

Abstract:

Nonlinear finite element upheaval buckling model of buried offshore pipelines under HT/HP is built using ABAQUS. The petroleum is defined as uniform flow; temperature field of offshore pipelines produced in the process of petroleum transportation is obtained by heat transfer analysis; offshore pipelines are buried in trench of sandy seabed, interaction between seabed and offshore pipelines is defined as friction, seabed interaction with offshore pipelines will limit the movement of offshore pipelines; coupled fluid-structure analysis for three phase model of oil-pipe-soil is conducted to obtain stress under HT/HP. Initial imperfection of pipeline is introduced to calculate upheaval buckling of buried offshore pipeline under HT/HP. Through numerical analysis, the axial force of pipelines under HT/HP is obtained and thus resulted in upheaval buckling.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 919-921)
• Pages: 292-295
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.919-921.292
• Online since: April 2014
• Authors: Peng Liu*, Shi Yuan Wu, Le Kang
• Keywords: Buried Offshore Pipelines, Coupled Fluid-Structure, HT/HP, Initial Imperfection, Upheaval Buckling

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