Engineering Critical Assessments of Marine Pipelines with 3D Surface Cracks Considering Weld Mismatch

Subject Areas : Engineering

S.M.H Sharifi ¹ , M Kaveh ² , H Saeidi Googarchin ³

1 - Department of Offshore Structures Engineering, Faculty of Marine Science, Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan, Iran
2 - Department of Offshore Structures Engineering, Faculty of Marine Science, Petroleum University of Technology, Abadan, Iran
3 - Automotive Fluids and Structures Analysis Research Laboratory, School of Automotive Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-03-07 Accepted : 2018-05-03 Published : 2018-06-30

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