Structural and Thermal Analyses of Deepwater Pipes

Prof. Dr. Segen Farid Estefen is currently Full Professor of Ocean Structures and Subsea Engineering at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he is general manager of the Subsea Technology Laboratory. He is a member of the advisory board of the Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow of the Society for Underwater Technology (UK) and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Engineering. Member of the Petrobras board of directors since April 2015. He received the master's degree in Ocean Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - COPPE, the Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College London, and has been a research fellow at the Institute of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Prof. Dr. Jian Su is associate professor of Nuclear Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received BS in Engineering Thermophysics from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, MS BS in Engineering Thermophysics from Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, and DSc in Mechanical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He was Director-Treasurer of Brazilian Society of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences (ABCM) from 2005 to 2009, and Head of Department of Nuclear Engineering, COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro from 2009 to 2013. Currently, he is Coordinator of Undergraduate Programme in Nuclear Engineering, Escola Politécnica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. His research focuses on transport phenomena, multiphysics modelling, nuclear reactor engineering, and ocean engineering. Prof. Dr. Menglan Duan held a Bachelor's degree (1987) in petroleum drilling engineering at the department of petroleum engineering, Jianghan University of Petroleum (Yangtze University since 2003), a Master's degree (1990) in offshore structural engineering and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in petroleum mechanical engineering at the department of mechanical engineering, University of Petroleum of China. Then he served as senior engineer, research professor, chief engineering at the headquarter of China Classification Society till 2006. In 2006, he joined the China University of Petroleum-Beijing, and now the dean of Institute for Ocean Engineering. He is Professor of solid mechanics and ocean engineering, published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, acted as project manager for over 150 projects in ocean engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering. He is the chairman of Specialist Committee V.8 Subsea Technology of the 20th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2018, the chairman of China Branch of the Society for Underwater Technology, and the member of the EU Academy of Sciences. Prof. Dr. Chen An is Associate Professor of the Institute for Ocean Engineering at China University of Petroleum-Beijing, where he has been since 2013. He received a B.S. from Dalian University of Technology in 2003, and a M.Sc. from the Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm. He received his D.Sc. in Ocean Engineering from COPPE of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His research interests span local buckling, dynamic response and thermal insulation of subsea pipelines. He is the author of over 30 journal and conference papers on structural behavior of subsea pipelines and risers.

Introduction.- Part I - Limit Strength of Sandwich Pipes.- Sandwich Pipes.- Sandwich Pipes Filled with Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete.- Sandwich Pipes Filled with PVA Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites.- Buckle Propagation of Sandwich Pipes.- Sandwich Pipe: Reel-Lay Installation Effects.- Part II - Dynamics of Fluid-Conveying Pipes.- Integral Transform Solutions of Solid and Structural Mechanics Problems.- Pipes Conveying Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow.- Pipes Conveying Vertical Slug Flow.- Pipes Conveying Horizontal Slug Flow.- Axially functionally graded pipes conveying fluid.- Part III - Thermal Analysis of Multilayer Pipelines Fundamentals of Thermal Analysis.- Steady State Thermal Analysis.- Steady-State Analysis of Heavy Oil Transportation Analysis of Direct Electrical Heating.- Transient Analysis of Multilayer Composite Pipelines with Active Heating.