Van Der Heijden, G; Wang, ZK; (2017) Localised lateral buckling of partially embedded subsea pipelines with nonlinear soil resistance. Thin-Walled Structures , 120 pp. 408-420. 10.1016/j.tws.2017.05.017.

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Abstract

Unburied partially embedded subsea pipelines under high temperature conditions tend to relieve their axial compressive force by forming localised lateral buckles. This phenomenon is traditionally studied as a kind of imperfect column buckling problem. We study lateral buckling as a genuinely localised buckling phenomenon governed by a different static instability, with a different critical load. No ad hoc assumptions need to be made. We combine this buckling analysis with a detailed state-of-the-art nonlinear pipe-soil interaction model that accounts for the effect of lateral breakout resistance. This allows us to investigate the effect of initial embedment of subsea pipelines on their load-deflection behaviour. Parameter studies reveal a limit to the temperature difference for safe operation of the pipeline, in the sense that for higher temperature differences a localised buckling mode has lower total energy than the straight unbuckled pipe. Localised lateral buckling may then occur if the pipe is sufficiently imperfect or sufficiently dynamically perturbed.

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