Download or read book Fracture Mechanics Assessment of Fatigue Cracks in Offshore Tubular Structures written by Daren Bowness and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the introduction of Safety Case Regulations, following Lord Cullen's report on the Piper Alpha disaster, a Safety Case, which is renewed every three years, is required for each installation operating in UK waters, to ensure that structural integrity is maintained. The reassessment of structural integrity is therefore an important issue amongst offshore operators. Fracture mechanics analysis, using the stress intensity factor, provides the only viable means to assess the remaining fatigue life of cracked tubular joints. Also, assessing the significance of the fatigue damage allows expensive in-service inspections to be scheduled effectively, thus improving safety. The economic benefit of a reliable fatigue crack growth analysis procedure can thus be significant, as it enables the risk of fatigue failure to be properly evaluated, allowing expensive repairs of damaged components to be carried out only when necessary. The results of this research are therefore of interest to offshore oil and gas operators and authorities enforcing offshore safety regulations.

Download or read book Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Offshore Structures written by Linus Etube and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etube (mechanical engineering, University College London) presents novel research and the results of wave-induced stress on the operational life of offshore structures. Using the results of an investigation undertaken to assess the fatigue and fracture performance of steels used in the industry, the five chapters discuss details of the methodology to develop a typical jack-up offshore standard load history (JOSH); factors that influence fatigue resistance of structural steels used in the construction of jack-up structures; methods used to model the relevant factors for inclusion in JOSH, with emphasis on loading and structural response interaction; results and details of experimental variable amplitude corrosion fatigue tests conducted using JOSH; and a novel generalized methodology for fast assessment of offshore structural welded joints. Distributed by ASME. c. Book News Inc.

Download or read book Fracture Mechanics Based Fatigue Assessment of Weld Toe Cracks in Offshore Tubular Structures written by Daren Bowness and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Offshore Structures written by Linus S. Etube and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The tubular welded joints used in the construction of offshore structures can experience millions of variable amplitude load cycles during their service life. Such fatigue loading represents a main cause of degradation in these structures. As a result, fatigue is an important consideration in their design. Fatigue and Fracture Mechanisms of Offshore Structures present novel research and the results of wave-induced stress on the operational life of offshore structures. Containing results of an investigation undertaken to assess the fatigue and fracture performance of steels used in the offshore industry, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Offshore Structures includes, Stress analysis of tubular joints Fatigue design Fatigue loading in Jackup structures Jack-up dynamic response Modelling of wave loading Test specimen considerations The stress intensity factor concept Variable amplitude crack growth models Consideration of sequence effects Sea state probability model The important research in this book will be of interest to those dealing with a wide range of engineering structures - from bridges and buildings to masts and pipelines, as well as fatigue and fracture specialists, and those concerned with materials technology.

Download or read book Fracture Mechanics Based Fatigue Assessment of Weld Toe Cracks in Offshore Tubular Structures written by Daren Bowness and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics of Offshore Structures written by Naveen Patniak and published by Scitus Academics LLC. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fatigue phenomenon process in structural elements and connections. The tubular welded joints used in the construction of offshore structures can experience millions of variable amplitude load cycles during their service life. Such fatigue loading represents a main cause of degradation in these structures. As a result, fatigue is an important consideration in their design. Fatigue and Fracture Mechanisms of Offshore Structures present novel research and the results of wave-induced stress on the operational life of offshore structures. Increasing oil consumption in the world and scarcity of land-oil resources due to political and economical reasons has caused offshore oil exploration and production to become a growing investigation field in the past six decades. The analysis of structures to use energy deposits and other recourses, or for other purposes, in ocean environments requires a special consideration since environmental and loading conditions offshore are very complicated and contain large uncertainties. Offshore structures are continuously subjected to random ocean waves producing stochastic loads that cause mainly fatigue failure in structural components.

Download or read book Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Fatigue Crack Propagation in Tubular Joints written by Frederick Michael Burdekin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Fracture Mechanics Methodology for the Assessment of Fatigue Cracks in Tubular Joints written by Jane V. Haswell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fracture and Fatigue Control in Structures written by Stanley Theodore Rolfe and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1977 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizes applications of fracture mechanics to prevent fracture and fatigue failures in structures, rather than the theoretical aspects of fracture mechanics. The concepts of driving force and resistance force are used to differentiate between the mathematical side and the materials side. Case studies of actual failures are new to the third edition. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Mechanics and Design of Tubular Structures written by Karoly Jarmai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book helps designers and manufacturers to select and develop the most suitable and competitive steel structures, which are safe, fit for production and economic. An optimum design system is used to find the best characteristics of structural models, which guarantee the fulfilment of design and fabrication requirements and minimize the cost function. Realistic numerical models are used as main components of industrial steel structures. Chapter 1 containts some experiences with the optimum design of steel structures Chapter 2 treats some newer mathematical optimization methods. Chapter 3 gives formulae for fabrication times and costs. Chapters 4 deals with beams and columns. Summarizes the Eurocode rules for design. Chapter 5 deals with the design of tubular trusses. Chapter 6 gives the design of frame structures and fire-resistant design rules for a frame. In Chapters 7 some minimum cost design problems of stiffened and cellular plates and shells are worked out for cases of different stiffenings and loads. Chapter 8 gives a cost comparison of cylindrical and conical shells. The book contains a large collection of literatures and a subject list and a name index.

Download or read book Fracture Mechanics Assessment of Doubly Curved Fatigue Cracks in Tubular Joints written by Daren Bowness and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fracture Mechanics written by Fazil Erdogan and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1995 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics written by Robert S. Piascik and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fracture and Fatigue Assessments of Structural Components written by Alberto Campagnolo and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In dealing with fracture and fatigue assessments of structural components, different approaches have been proposed in the literature. They are usually divided into three subgroups according to stress-based, strain-based, and energy-based criteria. Typical applications include both linear elastic and elastoplastic materials and plain and notched or cracked components under both static and fatigue loadings. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an update to the state-of-the-art on these approaches. The topics addressed in this Special Issue are applications from nano- to full-scale complex and real structures and recent advanced criteria for fracture and fatigue predictions under complex loading conditions, such as multiaxial constant and variable amplitude fatigue loadings.

Download or read book Tubular Structures VIII written by Y.S. Choo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Looking at the architecture and engineering of tubular structures, and the behaviour of section joints, members and frames under different loads and conditions, this book provides a reference point for both civil and mechanical engineers.

Download or read book Fatigue Crack Growth written by Ping Tang and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the mechanisms, behaviour and analysis of fatigue crack growths. Topics discussed in this compilation include the unified fatigue crack growth rate model; practical tools for statistical fatigue design; probablistic algorithms performance evaluation and application in multi-fractured structures; three dimensional effects in the fracture mechanics of bi-dimensional specimens; fatigue crack propagation mechanism in porous open pore metal foams; lifetime predictions for short fatigue crack's initiation-propagation by basic mechanical properties; variable amplitude fatigue crack growth in selected aluminium alloys; fatigue threshold R-curves for analysis of short fatigue cracks; and multiaxial fatigue life prediction for lateral notched round bars made of high strength steel.

Download or read book Mechanics of Fatigue Crack Closure written by Wolf Elber and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1988 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: