Design, Manufacturing and Testing of Filament Wound Composite Risers for Marine and Offshore Applications

Abstract:

The major challenge for producing and manufacturing risers for oil and gas production is to make them light weight so as to reduce the operational cost and improve the overall system requirements to make them an attractive option for marine and offshore industries. In the current research, the composite and metal-composite pipes (1) GFRP only (2) Al-GFRP and (3) PE-GFRP have been manufactured using filament winding machine operated using CADFIL and CADWIND CNC packages. The use of liners (Al and PE) has ensured the fluid tightness and collapse resistance of the pipe system. Small prototype pipes are manufactured based on optimized pipe design parameters for collapse under external pressure and burst under internal pressure using ANSYS 13 FEA analysis software. Experiments are conducted to verify the axial and hoop compressive strengths of the pipes with analytical results. The details of pipe manufacturing process using filament winding machine, simulation procedure to optimize the pipe parameters and validation of the simulation results with experimental results are the focal points of the current work.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 813)
• Pages: 337-343
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.813.337
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: S.K. Bhudolia, S. Fischer, P.G. He, Chee Yoon Yue, Sunil C. Joshi, J.L. Yang
• Keywords: Composite, Filament Winding, Manufacturing, Riser

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