Abstract: Pipelines can be subjected to bending loads due to a variety of factors such as seismic activity, slope instability, or discontinuous permafrost. Experimental studies of Sen et al. [1–3] showed that pipelines can fail under ...

Abstract: Wide plate testing has been traditionally applied to evaluate the tensile strain capacity (TSC) of pipelines with girth weld flaws. These wide plate tests cannot incorporate the effect of internal pressure, however, numerical ...