Sensitivity Study on the Laydown of Flexible Flowline Midline Connector

Abstract

The flexible installation has special challenges due to its relatively low bending stiffness. For example, the issue of midline connector laydown is the critical bending radius occurring at the flexible next to the connector. Such critical MBR is affected by several parameters, i.e. the bending stiffness of flexible, the dimension and weight of the midline connector, the layback etc. Through numerical simulation, this study performs sensitivity checks to address the effect of each parameter mentioned above.