Composites in offshore technology in the next century

Tarnopol'skii, Yu. M.; Kulakov, V. L.; Mungalov, Dmitri

doi:10.1007/bf02329321

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“…On the other hand, distributed loads are attributable to the weight of the riser and (internal and external) fluid-structure interaction. Apart from the gravity and buoyancy action, riser materials are typically subjected to axial traction force on the upper part of the upright, radial solicitation caused by the water current, shear stresses induced by the axial (vertical) flow of the inner moving fluid, concentrated forces reacting floating platform movements [30,31]. The riser is a tube connecting an offshore floating facility or a drilling rig to an underwater drilling and production systems.…”

Section: Application Of Composites In the Oil And Gas Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their replacement using composite lines lowered the total mass by 24%, with the subsequent reduction of the dynamic forces acting on the riser. Furthermore, the weight reduction mitigates also the effect of the sea current load [30]. In the mid-1990s, the US Department of Commerce launched a relevant program to develop, produce and test large composite structures, through the investments of the Advanced Technology Programs (ATP) supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the mid-1990s, the US Department of Commerce launched a relevant program to develop, produce and test large composite structures, through the investments of the Advanced Technology Programs (ATP) supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Two projects were funded to investigate the application of FRP risers in deep seawater, focused on drilling and production risers respectively [30]. Despite the differences in the requirements of specific application, the projects presented common elements, aiming at the assessment of the reliability of analysis methods for predicting failure modes and limit conditions, the creation of trustable databases reporting static and fatigue performance, the demonstration of the robustness of manufacturing routes, the definition of metrics for production planning and cost evaluation.…”

Section: Application Of Composites In the Oil And Gas Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marine Application of Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Review

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Tucci

et al. 2020

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Components and structures working in the marine environment are exposed to high stresses attributable to the action of wind, waves, and tides. Moreover, they have to face hostile and severe environmental conditions during their lifetime, being placed in the splash zone if not even submerged in saltwater. The application of polymer composites in marine systems has been the focus of intensive studies in the last decades, highlighting potential benefits given by the replacement of several components, such as ship hulls, propeller blades, wind, and tidal turbine blades, to cite but a few. The present paper reports the latest advances in this area, addressing the applications of advanced composites in ships and ship components, offshore oil and gas composites, marine renewable energy and underwater repairing.

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Section: Application Of Composites In the Oil And Gas Industrymentioning

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Marine Application of Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Review

Rubino

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Tucci

et al. 2020

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“…According to Tarnopol'skii et al (Tarnopol'skii et al, 1999), thermoplastic composite risers (TPCR) offer good solutions to current limited technologies in Top Tensioned Risers (TTRs) and Steel Catenary Risers (SCRs). Both the metal TTRs and SCRs are generally not able to support their own weights at water depths higher than 1500 m and the costs for these buoyancy and compensation systems may further increase with water depth.…”

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A review on design, manufacture and mechanics of composite risers

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Exploration of deeper oceans for oil and gas requires increasingly lightweight solutions. A key enabler in this aspect is the use of fiber-reinforced composite materials to replace metals in risers. However, design synthesis and analyses of composite risers are more challenging than for conventional metals due to the complex behavior and damage mechanisms which composite materials exhibit. Composite risers are predicted to be a high-impact technology that will be mainstream in the medium term but there is still relatively little literature pertaining directly to the behavior of these materials under the complex loading scenarios arising from their use in deep water structures. Therefore there is a need to perform a review and assessment of the available technologies and methodologies in the literature to gain a good understanding of their predictive capabilities, efficiency and drawbacks. This article provides a comprehensive review of published research on manufacture, experimental investigations and numerical analyses of composite risers in deepwater conditions determining the gaps and key challenges for the future to increase their application.

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“…As the offshore industry expands their operations to greater depths, potentially beyond 4000 meters, these problems will only get worse. Gradually replacing steel with composite materials could reduce the operational and capital expenditure due to their higher specific strength to weight ratios, lack of corrosion and excellent vibrational damping properties [4,5,6]. However, these benefits do not come without challenges, for example, the lighter weight of the composite could lead to higher compression loads [7] that requires ballast weights or internal metallic liners and high initial costs that are dependent on the manufacturing and qualification processes.…”

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