Abstract: The structural behavior of flexible pipes and umbilical cables is difficult to model due to their complex construction that includes components of different materials, shapes, and functions. Also, it is difficult to model ...

Abstract: The offshore industry is in constant evolution due to the need to reach increasing water depths for new oil fields exploitation. In this scenario, not only are new types of platforms being designed but also new types of ...

Abstract: Dry collapse is one of the possible failure modes of flexible pipes. It refers to the situation in which no damage occurs in the flexible pipe external sheath. In this scenario, all layers of the pipe withstand the external ...

Abstract: Usually when a large internal fluid pressure acts on the inner walls of flexible pipes, the carcass layer is not loaded, as the first internal pressure resistance is given by the internal polymeric layer that transmits ...