ENGI 8673 Subsea Pipeline Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Shawn Kenny, Ph.D., P.Eng. Winter 2009

ASSIGNMENT #2 (DUE: MARCH 2, 2009)

Instructions: To demonstrate comprehension of the subject matter and to prepare for the final
examination, include a handwritten sample calculation for each unique calculation required in each
problem. For repetitive calculations, the use of electronic calculation packages (e.g. Excel, Matlab) are
allowed. Sufficient information, which may include text, tables or figures, must be included to demonstrate
the problem set requirements have been satisfied.

Problem 2-1 An arctic offshore gravity base platform has an oil riser traversing within the in-air working
space and is supported by an anchor block. The pipeline has a 273.1mm nominal outside diameter with
9.525 mm wall thickness. The material properties include an elastic modulus of 205 GPa, Poisson’s ratio
of 0.3 and coefficient of thermal expansion of 1.15×10-5 m/m/°C. The installation tie-in temperature is
-25 °C and the operating temperature is 75°C. The design pressure is 12 MPa. As the distance from the
design pressure reference height to the pipeline elevation is typically small, the effects of a static fluid
column on internal pressure can be ignored. Calculate the longitudinal stress, equivalent stress and
deflection for the pipeline within the anchor block. If the linepipe is DNV SMLS 360, does the pipeline fail
the von Mises stress check? [50]

Problem 2-2 For the pipeline in Problem 1-1, calculate the virtual anchor length, axial end displacement
and axial stress at the anchor point for a buried pipeline. For these calculation assume the pipeline has
no concrete coating or anti-corrosion coating. Assume a undrained cohesive soil strength of 25kPa and
0.25 adhesion factor. Does the pipeline fail the von Mises stress check? [50]

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Problem 2-02

DEFINED UNITS
6 3 9 3
MPa  10 Pa kPa  10 Pa GPa  10 Pa C  K kN  10 N

PIPELINE SYSTEM PARAMETERS

Nominal Outside Diameter Do  273.1mm

Initial Selection Nominal Wall Thickness (Sec.5 C203 Table 5-3) tnom  9.525mm
External Corrosion Protection Coating Thickness tcpc  0mm
Fabrication Process (Sec.7 B300 Table 7-1) [SMLS, HFW, SAW] FAB  "SMLS"
Corrosion Allowance (Sec.6 D203) tcorr  3mm
Elastic Modulus E  205GPa
Specified Minimum Yield Stress (Sec.7 B300 Table 7-5) SMYS  450MPa
Speciifed Minimum Tensile Stress (Sec.7 B300 Table 7-5) SMTS  535MPa
5 1
Coefficient of Thermal Expansion αT  1.15  10 C
Poisson's Ratio ν  0.3
Pipeline Route Length Lp  2.5km
3
Linepipe Density ρs  7850kg  m
Concrete Coating Thickness tc  0mm
3
Concrete Coating Density ρc  3050kg  m

OPERATATIONAL PARAMETERS

API Gravity API  38

Product Contents Density
3 141.5 3
ρcont  1000  kg  m  ρcont  835 m  kg
131.5  API

Design Pressure (Gauge) Pd  12MPa

Design Pressure Reference Level h ref  0m
Operational Temperature To  75  C
Tie-in Temperature Tti  25  C
Maximum Water Depth h l  0m
3
Seawater Density ρw  1025kg  m

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Problem 2-02

GEOTECHNICAL PARAMETERS

Undrained Shear Strength Cu  25kPa

Adhesion Factor αsoil  0.25

SOIL RESISTANCE PARAMETERS

Soil Axial Restraint per Unit Length (Eqn B-1 ALA 2001)
1
f  π  Do  Cu  αsoil f  5.36  kN  m

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Problem 2-02

DNV OS-F101 PARTIAL FACTORS AND DESIGN PARAMETERS

Material Strength Factor - Operations (Sec.5 C306 Table 5-6) αU_o  0.96
Wall Thickness Fabrication Tolerance(Sec.7 G307 Table 7-18)
tfab  0.5mm if FAB = "SMLS"  tnom  4mm tfab  1.2  mm
0.125  tnom if FAB = "SMLS"  tnom  4mm
0.125  tnom if FAB = "SMLS"  tnom  10mm
0.100  tnom if FAB = "SMLS"  tnom  25mm
3mm if FAB = "SMLS"  tnom  30mm
0.4mm if FAB = "HFW"  tnom  6mm
0.7mm if FAB = "HFW"  tnom  6mm
1.0mm if FAB = "HFW"  tnom  15mm
0.5mm if FAB = "SAW"  tnom  6mm
0.7mm if FAB = "SAW"  tnom  6mm
1.0mm if FAB = "SAW"  tnom  10mm
1.0mm if FAB = "SAW"  tnom  20mm

Material Derating (Sec.5 C300 Figure 2)

ΔSMYS_o  0MPa if To  50C ΔSMYS_o  15.00  MPa

 T  50  C   30MPa  if 50  C  T  100C
 o   o
  50  C 
30MPa   T  100  C   40MPa  otherwise
 o  
  100  C 
ΔSMTS_o  0MPa if To  50C ΔSMYS_o  15.00  MPa

 T  50  C   30MPa  if 50  C  T  100C
 o   o
  50  C 
30MPa   T  100  C   40MPa  otherwise
 o  
  100  C 
fy_o  ( SMYS  ΔSMYS_o )  αU_o fy_o  418  MPa

fu_o  ( SMTS  ΔSMTS_o)  αU_o fu_o  499  MPa

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Problem 2-02

ENGINEERING ANALYSIS

PIPELINE GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES

Inside Pipeline Diameter (Operations Case)
Di_o  Do  2   tnom  tcorr  tfab Di_o  262.4  mm

Inside Pipeline Radius (Operations Case)

Ri_o  0.5  Di_o Ri_o  131.2  mm

Mean Pipeline Radius

Rm  0.5   Do  tnom Rm  131.8  mm

External Hydrostatic Pressure

Pe  ρw  g  h l Pe  0.00  MPa

HOOP STRESS (THIN WALL THEORY)

Pd  ρcont  g   href  h l  Di_o  Pe  Do

σh  σh  295.2  MPa
2  tnom  tcorr  tfab

DISTANCE TO VIRTUAL ANCHOR POINT

- Equation 9 of Palmer and Ling (1981) OTC4067
- Eqn (12.17) L12 Guidance Note

2
π  Pd  Rm  2  tnom 
z   1  2  ν   E  αT   To  Tti  z  396 m
f  Pd  Rm 
Virtual Anchor Length Check

zchk  "VIRTUAL ANCHOR OK" if z  0.5  Lp

zchk  "VIRTUAL ANCHOR OK"
"RECALCULATE" otherwise

AXIAL END DISPLACEMENT

Eqn (12.19) L12 Guidance Note
2
 Pd  Rm  fz
δend   2  E  t  ( 1  2ν)  αT   To  Tti  z  δend  260  mm
 nom  4  π  E  Rm  tnom

Axial End Displacement [Equation 12 - Palmer and Ling (1981) OTC 4067]

2
 Pd  Rm    ν 
1
π  Rm  E  tnom  αT   To  Tti   2
 1 
2 
δPalmer   δPalmer  260  mm
f  E  tnom  αT   To  Tti

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Problem 2-02

LONGITUDINAL STRESS
- Eqn (12.16) L12 Guidance Note

Axial Stress (For X < Z)

x 75  0.75  z

Pd  Rm f
σl_75    x 75 σl_75  118.7  MPa
2tnom 2  π  Rm  tnom

x 1  1.00  z

Pd  Rm f
σl_1    x1 σl_1  185.9  MPa
2tnom 2  π  Rm  tnom

AXIAL STRESS (FOR X >= Z)

Pd  Rm
σl  ν   E  αT   To  Tti  σl  185.9  MPa
tnom

EQUIVALENT STRESS CHECK

2 2
σeq  σh  σh  σl  σl σeq  420.2  MPa

σeqchk  "EQUIVALENT STRESS OK" if σeq  0.9  fy_o

σeqchk  "INCREASE WALL THICKNESS"
"INCREASE WALL THICKNESS" otherwise

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