CHAPTER 1  Introduction

  1.1  General remarks

  1.2  The design process

  1.3  Engineerin8 phases

    1.3.1  Steel pipelines

    1.3.2  Flexible pipes

CHAPTER 2  Design Principles

  2.1  General remarks

  2.2  Design formats

  2.3  Discussion of relevant loads

  2.4  Discussion of failure modes

    2.4.1  Mechanical failure modes for steel pipelines

    2.4.2  Mechanical failure modes for flexible pipes.

  2.5  Cross-section design

CHAPTER 3  Steel Pipeline Design

  3.1  General remarks

  3.2  Stress and strain components

  3.3  Wall thickness design

    3.3.1  The hoop stress （bursting） criteria

    3.3.2  External pressure collapse

  3.4  Design against other relevant failure modes in steel pipelines

    3.4.1  Buckling due to combined loads

    3.4.2  Fatigue

    3.4.3  Other mechanical failure modes

CHAPTER 4  Mechanical Behaviour of Flexible Pipes

  4.1  General remarks

  4.2  Governing stress components

  4.3  Wire geometries

  4.4  Behaviour due to axi-symmetric loads

    4.4.1  General

    4.4.2  Axial loading

    4.4.3  Torsion

    4.4.4  Internal and external pressure

  4.5  Behaviour in bending

    4.5.1  General

    4.5.2  Minimum bend radius

    4.5.3  Stresses and stress resultants related to the tensile armour

    4.5.4  Stresses related to the pressure armour

  4.6  Buckling

    4.6.1  Carcass collapse

    4.6.2  Tensile armour buckling

  4.7  Fatigue

    4.7.1  General

    4.7.2  Mean stress correction

    4.7.3  Mean and dynamic stresses in the tensile armour

    4.7.4  Mean and dynamic stresses in the pressure armour

    4.7.5  The effect of corrosion failures in terms of bursting and fatigue performance

    4.7.6  The effect of corrosion in terms of lateral wire buckling

    4.7.7  The link between global and local analysis

  4.8  Computational methods

    4.8.1  General

    4.8.2  Axi-symmetric stress analysis

    4.8.3  Bending and fatigue stress analysis

    4.8.4  Special cases

CHAPTER 5  Heat Transfer and Thermal Insulation

  5.1  General remarks

  5.2  The heat transfer coefficient

    5.2.1  Conduction

    5.2.2  Convection

    5.2.3  Influence of soil burial

  5.3  The temperature profile

  5.4  Time to reach critical temperature

CHAPTER 6  Steel Pipeline Material Selection and Welding

  6.1  General remarks

  6.2  Material selection

  6.3  Pipeline welding

    6.3.1  General

    6.3.2  Welding processes

    6.3.3  Non-destructive testing

CHAPTER 7  Pipeline Installation

  7.1  General remarks

  7.2  Pipeline installation methods

    7.2.1  Controlled depth tow method

    7.2.2  J-lay

    7.2.3  S-lay

    7.2.4  Selection of method

  7.3  Pipeline installation analysis

    7.3.1  The effective tension concept and Archimedes law

    7.3.2  The catenary equation

    7.3.3  Minimum horizontal radius

    7.3.4  Residual radius and roll

CHAPTER 8  Global Buckling

  8.1  General remarks

  8.2  The process of bucklin8

  8.3  Analytical global buckling model

  8.4  The significance of different parameters included in an upheaval buckling analysis

    8.4.1  Formulation of the upheaval buckling failure function

    8.4.2  Input parameters and failure function

    8.4.3  The Hasofer-Lind reliability index

    8.4.4  Results

CHAPTER 9  The Finite Element Method as Applied to Slender Structures

  9.1  General remarks

  9.2  Basics of the finite element method

  9.3  Non-linear effects

  9.4  Strain and stress measures

  9.5  Non-linear finite element methods

    9.5.1  Equilibrium equation

    9.5.2  Non-linear formulations

    9.5.3  Material law-plasticity for metals

    9.5.4  Solution techniques

  9.6  Description of some elements of general relevance for global analysis of slender structures

    9.6.1  Oeneral

    9.6.2  Pipe elements

    9.6.3  Seabed contact element

    9.6.4  Roller contact element

    9.6.5  Pipe-in-pipe contact element

  9.7  Description of elements related to global and local re