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Effect of Tension on the Combined Loading Failure Envelope of a Pipeline on Soft Clay Seabed

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In this article, a numerical finite-element study of the undrained bearing capacity of a pipeline partially embedded in clay soil and subjected to combined vertical (V) and horizontal (H) loading is considered.
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Offshore pipelines are commonly laid directly on the seabed, which is dominantly soft clayey deposits in deep-water areas. This article presents a numerical finite-element study of the undrained bearing capacity of a pipeline partially embedded in clay soil and subjected to combined vertical (V) and horizontal (H) loading. The effect of tensile capacity between the pipe and soil is considered. Expressions for bearing- capacity envelopes explicitly written in the V-H space and covering a practical range of embedment ratios and uplift tensile capacities are presented. This allows offshore engineers to estimate pipeline behavior under combined loading with consideration of the tension between pipe and soil.

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Assessment of submarine pipeline damages subjected to falling object impact considering the effect of seabed

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Break-out resistance of offshore pipelines buried in inclined clayey seabed

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Predicting the Instability Trajectory of an Obliquely Loaded Pipeline on a Clayey Seabed

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Combined loading of skirted foundations

Mark Fraser Bransby, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1998 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the response of skirted offshore foundations to combined vertical (V), moment (M) and horizontal (H) loading has been studied using two-dimensional finite-element analysis and upper-bound plasticity analysis assuming the soil to be undrained.
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Computational model for 3‐D contact problems with friction based on the penalty method

TL;DR: In this paper, the friction forces are assumed to follow the Coulomb law, with a slip criterion treated in the context of a standard return mapping algorithm Consistent linearization of the field equations is performed which leads to a fully implicit scheme with non-symmetric tangent stiffness which preserves asymptotic quadratic convergence of the Newton-Raphson method.

A generalized Newton method for contact problems with friction

TL;DR: Reference LMAF-ARTICLE-1988-001View record in Web of Science Record created on 2005-09-14, modified on 2017-05-10 as mentioned in this paper.
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The ultimate undrained resistance of partially embedded pipelines

TL;DR: In this article, finite element analyses of shallowly embedded pipelines under vertical and horizontal load are compared with collapse loads calculated using the upper-bound theorem of plasticity, and are used to construct yield envelopes defining the limiting combinations of vertical and lateral load.
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