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...

Local buckling collapse of marine pipelines

To keep up with the growing demand for oil and gas, the oil and gas industry ventures into deeper waters. For a deep water pipeline project, South Stream, a pipeline test program is developed. Part of this program is the investigation of the resistance of an externally pressurised pipeline against local buckling collapse. This is a decisive...