Local Buckling and Collapse of Thick-Walled pipe

Heerema Marine Contractors is an offshore contractor who specializes in the installation and removal of a range of offshore facilities. This includes the installation of submarine pipelines in excess of 1500 [m] water depth. Higher water depths drive the pipeline designs to increase wall thickness. Another motive to apply a low D/t ratio is to...

Design of a lightweight FRP T-boom for an offshore gangway, and development of a fatigue model for prediction of its service life

The high stiffness to weight ratio of fibre reinforced composites have been utilized in improving the performance of various structures conventionally designed using metals. One such application is the gangway of the Ampelmann system used to transfer personnel safely from and to the offshore platform in sea. In the current work, a preliminary...