Mechanics of Offshore Pipelines: Volume I

Stelios Kyriakides is currently the John Webb Jennings Chair in Engineering and Professor n Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics for the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Director of the Research Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures, and Materials at UT. Stelios has had over 35 years involvement with the offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry world-wide. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard and California Institute of Technology. He earned a B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Bristol, a MS and PhD, both in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. He is active in many journals including Elsevier's Applied Ocean Research and the International Journal of Solids and Structures. Edmundo Corona currently works at the Sandia National Laboratories, researching structural and solid mechanics for more than 30 years. He has conducted research in the areas of elastic-plastic buckling and failure of various structural members ranging from structural shapes to beverage containers. Previously, he has collaborated with NASA Langley on investigations of buckling of flat plates that contain cracks. He has contributed and authored on many journals including Elsevier's International Journal of Solids and Structures. Edmundo earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering, a MS in Engineering Mechanics, and a PhD in Engineering Mechanics, all from the University of Texas at Austin.

1. Introduction 2. Offshore Facilities and Pipeline Installation Methods 3. Pipe and Tube Manufacturing Processes 4. Buckling and Collapse Under External Pressure 5. Collapse of UOE Pipe Under External Pressure 6. Collapse of Dented Pipe Under External Pressure 7. Buckling and Collapse Under Combined External Pressure and Tension 8. Inelastic Response, Buckling and Collapse Under Pure Bending 9. Buckling and Collapse Under Combined Bending and External Pressure 10. Inelastic Response Under Combined Bending and Tension 11. Plastic Buckling and Collapse Under Axial Compression 12. Collapse Under Combined Internal Pressure and Axial Compression 13. Elements of Metal Plasticity

Appendix A. Mechanical Testing B. Plastic Anisotropic in Tubes C. The Ramberg-Osgood Stress-Strain Fit D. Sanders' Circular Cylindrical Shell Equations E. Stress-Strain Fitting for the Dafalias-Popov Model F. Stress-Strain Fitting for the Tseng-Lee Model G. Glossary and Nomenclature H. Units and Conversions