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We analyze the serviceability of a pipe containing a defect by the following three methods: limit analysis, failure-assessment diagram, and subcritical crack growth. The use of the proposed complex approach is explained by the fact that, despite the plasticity of pipe steels, they can suffer quasibrittle fracture (under the conditions of plane deformation) or fail as a result of plastic collapse. Moreover, the final fracture of a pipe with defect is preceded by the stage of stable crack growth. Therefore, in analyzing the serviceability of the pipe, one should also take into account the “leak-before-break” criterion. To take into account all these circumstances, it is necessary to use the indicated three methods, as in the case of evaluation of the serviceability of a pipe of API X52 steel containing a surface semielliptic notch. Defects of this sort reflect the influence of the surface gouges and dents responsible for the failures of pipes under the action of internal pressure.
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Published in Fizyko-Khimichna Mekhanika Materialiv, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 119–127, January–February, 2006.
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Pluvinage, G. Pipe-defect assessment based on the limit analysis, failure-assessment diagram, and subcritical crack growth. Mater Sci 42, 127–139 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11003-006-0065-x
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