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Dynamic Behavior and Fatigue

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Dynamics of Flowline/Riser Systems

Definition

Pipeline and riser systems are one of the offshore production equipment that plays a vital role in the transportation of oil and natural gas from subsea wellhead to topsides of the floating units/vessels. Basically, risers are conductor pipes that connect floaters on the sea surface and the wellheads at the seabed. They experience different sources of dynamic loadings coming from wave, currents, VIV, hydrodynamics, vessel motions, and slugs which cause instabilities and vibrations of the system.

Scientific Fundamentals of Riser Structures

Riser Description and Configurations

There are mainly two kinds of risers which are rigid risers and flexible risers. A hybrid riser is the combination of these two.

Rigid Risers

Steel catenary risers (SCR) and top tensioned risers (TTR) are various forms of rigid riser systems. In practice, the top tensioned risers are deployed in shallow waters, but as design for higher water depth is accounted, a new...

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  1. College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum Beijing, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Mac Darlington Uche Onuoha & Menglan Duan

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  1. Mac Darlington Uche Onuoha
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  1. Hadal Science and Technology Research Center, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China

    Weicheng Cui

  2. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Shixiao Fu

  3. School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

    Zhiqiang Hu

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  1. College of Safety and Ocean Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing, China

    Menglan Duan

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Onuoha, M.D.U., Duan, M. (2020). Dynamic Behavior and Fatigue. In: Cui, W., Fu, S., Hu, Z. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ocean Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6963-5_276-1

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