A Theoretical Approach to Predict the Fatigue Life of Flexible Pipes

This paper focuses on a theoretical approach to access the fatigue life of flexible pipes. This methodology employs functions that convert forces and moments obtained in time-domain global analyses into stresses in their tensile armors. The stresses are then processed by well-known cycle counting me...

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Main Authors: José Renato M. de Sousa, Fernando J. M. de Sousa, Marcos Q. de Siqueira, Luís V. S. Sagrilo, Carlos Alberto D. de Lemos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/983819