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Assessment of structural integrity of subsea wellhead system: analytical and numerical study
journal contribution
posted on 2015-05-11, 12:17 authored by Angelo R. Maligno, R. Citarella, Vadim V. Silberschmidt, Constantinos SoutisSubsea wellhead systems exposed to severe fatigue loading are becoming increasingly a significant problem in offshore drilling operations due to their applications in wells with higher levels of pressure and temperature, situated at larger depths and in harsher environments. This has led to a substantial increase in the weight and size of offshore equipment, which, in combination with different loading conditions related to the environmental factors acting on the vessel and riser, has greatly increased the loads acting on subsea well systems. In particular, severe fatigue loading acting on the subsea wellhead system was detected. For this reason, a combined analytical and numerical study investigating the critical effect of crack depth on the overall structural integrity of subsea wellhead systems under cyclic loading was carried out. The study is based on a Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM) approach.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Frattura ed Integrita StrutturaleVolume
31Pages
97 - 119Citation
MALIGNO, A.R. ... et al, 2015. Assessment of structural integrity of subsea wellhead system: analytical and numerical study. Frattura ed Integrita Strutturale, 31, pp. 97 - 119.Publisher
Gruppo Italiano FratturaVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2015Notes
This article was published in the journal, Frattura ed Integrita Strutturale and is available here with the kind permission of the publisher.eISSN
1971-8993Publisher version
Language
- en