Steel catenary risers （SCR） have become an enabling technology for deepwater environments. A comprehensive review was conducted on recent research that examined interactions between deepwater steel catenary risers a...Steel catenary risers （SCR） have become an enabling technology for deepwater environments. A comprehensive review was conducted on recent research that examined interactions between deepwater steel catenary risers and soft clay seabeds. This included the STRIDE （steel risers in deepwater environments） and CARISIMA （catenary riser soil interaction model for global riser analysis） joint jndustry jrogram＇s test data as well as information from existing papers.展开更多
Flexible risers and steel catenary risers often provide unique riser solutions for today’s deepwater field development. Accurate analysis of these slender structures, in which there are high-speed HP/HT internal flow...Flexible risers and steel catenary risers often provide unique riser solutions for today’s deepwater field development. Accurate analysis of these slender structures, in which there are high-speed HP/HT internal flows, is critical to ensure personnel and asset safety. In this study, a special global coordinate-based FEM rod model was adopted to identify and quantify the effects of internal flow and hydrostatic pressure on both flexible and deepwater steel catenary risers, with emphasis on the latter. By incorporating internal flow induced forces into the model, it was found that the internal flow contributes a new term to the effective tension expression. For flexible risers in shallow water, internal flow and hydrostatic pressure made virtually no change to effective tension by merely altering the riser wall tension. In deep water the internal pressure wielded a dominant role in governing the riser effective tension and furthering the static configuration, while the effect of inflow velocity was negligible. With respect to the riser seabed interaction, both the seabed support and friction effect were considered, with the former modeled by a nonlinear quadratic spring, allowing for a consistent derivation of the tangent stiffness matrix. The presented application examples show that the nonlinear quadratic spring is, when using the catenary solution as an initial static profile, an efficient way to model the quasi-Winkler-type elastic seabed foundation in this finite element scheme.展开更多
Steel catenary riser（SCR） is the transmission device between the seabed and the floating production facilities. As developments move into deeper water, the fatigue life of the riser can become critical to the whole ...Steel catenary riser（SCR） is the transmission device between the seabed and the floating production facilities. As developments move into deeper water, the fatigue life of the riser can become critical to the whole production system, especially due to the vortex-induced vibration（VIV）, which is the key factor to operational longevity. As a result, experimental investigation about VIV of the riser was performed in a large plane pool which is 60 m long, 36 m wide and 6.5 m deep. Experiments were developed to study the influence of current speed and seabed on VIV of SCR. The results show that amplitudes of strain and response frequencies increase with the current speed both in cross-flow（CF） and in-line（IL）. When the current speed is high, multi-mode response is observed in the VIV motion. The amplitudes of strain in IL direction are not much smaller than those in CF direction. The seabed has influence on the response frequencies of riser and the positions of damage for riser.展开更多
The present study establishes a simple numerical model for the coupled response of a steel catenary riser(SCR) subjected to coplanar vessel motion and vortex-induced vibration(VIV). Owing to the large deflection of th...The present study establishes a simple numerical model for the coupled response of a steel catenary riser(SCR) subjected to coplanar vessel motion and vortex-induced vibration(VIV). Owing to the large deflection of the SCR, the geometric nonlinearity is considered in this model. The hydrodynamic force comprises the excitation force and hydrodynamic damping, where the excitation force that only exists when the non-dimensional frequency is located in the lock-in range, is associated with the VIV. The hydrodynamic force model is validated based on the published VIV test data.As for the seabed resistance at the touchdown zone(TDZ), integrated with an initial seabed trench, the hysteretic feature is modeled. Based on the model, the study emphasizes on the coupled response characteristics near the touchdown point(TDP) induced by coplanar vessel heave and VIV, and analyzes the sensitivity of the coupled response to the heaving amplitude and frequency. It is found that with the increase of the heave amplitude and frequency, the VIV can be obviously mitigated, but the heave-related response in the coupled analysis seems to be close to that in the heave-only simulation. Finally, the fatigue damage near TDP is parametrically investigated based on the separate analysis and the coupled analysis. The results demonstrate that the coupled effect plays a significant role in the fatigue assessment near TDP. Besides, the proportion of the coupled effect accounting for the total fatigue damage decreases with the increasing seabed stiffness, while increases with the increasing seabed trench depth.展开更多
深水钢悬链立管(Steel Catenary Riser,SCR)是浮式平台的主要部件,在服役条件下由于受到海洋特殊的海浪、潮汐、台风等各种环境因素的影响,极其容易发生疲劳破坏。为解决钢悬链立管在深水服役环境中受循环载荷的作用容易产生疲劳失效的...深水钢悬链立管(Steel Catenary Riser,SCR)是浮式平台的主要部件,在服役条件下由于受到海洋特殊的海浪、潮汐、台风等各种环境因素的影响,极其容易发生疲劳破坏。为解决钢悬链立管在深水服役环境中受循环载荷的作用容易产生疲劳失效的问题,采用冷金属过渡(Cold Metal Transition,CMT)打底、脉冲模式填充盖面的熔化极气体保护焊(Gas Metal Arc Welding,GMAW),开发了钢悬链立管S型铺设全自动焊工艺并进行了焊缝性能试验研究。结果表明,横向拉伸、全焊缝拉伸、侧弯、缺口断裂、冲击、宏观硬度及全尺寸疲劳等试验结果均满足SCR焊接规格书要求;SCR环焊缝通过全尺寸疲劳试验测试,所有焊缝疲劳性能满足BS7608(1993)的外径D曲线和内径E曲线的95%置信水平要求;由于CMT冷金属过渡封底为无衬垫单面焊双面成型技术,具有焊接热输入量小、无飞溅等优点,可确保焊缝根部成形与母材圆滑过渡,减小SCR焊缝应力集中,从而提高其抗疲劳性能。展开更多
文摘Steel catenary risers （SCR） have become an enabling technology for deepwater environments. A comprehensive review was conducted on recent research that examined interactions between deepwater steel catenary risers and soft clay seabeds. This included the STRIDE （steel risers in deepwater environments） and CARISIMA （catenary riser soil interaction model for global riser analysis） joint jndustry jrogram＇s test data as well as information from existing papers.
基金Supported by the National High-tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under Grant No. 2010AA09Z303the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50739004)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11002135)
文摘Flexible risers and steel catenary risers often provide unique riser solutions for today’s deepwater field development. Accurate analysis of these slender structures, in which there are high-speed HP/HT internal flows, is critical to ensure personnel and asset safety. In this study, a special global coordinate-based FEM rod model was adopted to identify and quantify the effects of internal flow and hydrostatic pressure on both flexible and deepwater steel catenary risers, with emphasis on the latter. By incorporating internal flow induced forces into the model, it was found that the internal flow contributes a new term to the effective tension expression. For flexible risers in shallow water, internal flow and hydrostatic pressure made virtually no change to effective tension by merely altering the riser wall tension. In deep water the internal pressure wielded a dominant role in governing the riser effective tension and furthering the static configuration, while the effect of inflow velocity was negligible. With respect to the riser seabed interaction, both the seabed support and friction effect were considered, with the former modeled by a nonlinear quadratic spring, allowing for a consistent derivation of the tangent stiffness matrix. The presented application examples show that the nonlinear quadratic spring is, when using the catenary solution as an initial static profile, an efficient way to model the quasi-Winkler-type elastic seabed foundation in this finite element scheme.
基金financially supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(863 Program,Grant No.2010AA09Z303)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41174157)Shandong Province Scientific Research Foundation for Outstanding Young Scientists Program(Grant No.BS2013HZ014)
文摘Steel catenary riser（SCR） is the transmission device between the seabed and the floating production facilities. As developments move into deeper water, the fatigue life of the riser can become critical to the whole production system, especially due to the vortex-induced vibration（VIV）, which is the key factor to operational longevity. As a result, experimental investigation about VIV of the riser was performed in a large plane pool which is 60 m long, 36 m wide and 6.5 m deep. Experiments were developed to study the influence of current speed and seabed on VIV of SCR. The results show that amplitudes of strain and response frequencies increase with the current speed both in cross-flow（CF） and in-line（IL）. When the current speed is high, multi-mode response is observed in the VIV motion. The amplitudes of strain in IL direction are not much smaller than those in CF direction. The seabed has influence on the response frequencies of riser and the positions of damage for riser.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51979129)。
文摘The present study establishes a simple numerical model for the coupled response of a steel catenary riser(SCR) subjected to coplanar vessel motion and vortex-induced vibration(VIV). Owing to the large deflection of the SCR, the geometric nonlinearity is considered in this model. The hydrodynamic force comprises the excitation force and hydrodynamic damping, where the excitation force that only exists when the non-dimensional frequency is located in the lock-in range, is associated with the VIV. The hydrodynamic force model is validated based on the published VIV test data.As for the seabed resistance at the touchdown zone(TDZ), integrated with an initial seabed trench, the hysteretic feature is modeled. Based on the model, the study emphasizes on the coupled response characteristics near the touchdown point(TDP) induced by coplanar vessel heave and VIV, and analyzes the sensitivity of the coupled response to the heaving amplitude and frequency. It is found that with the increase of the heave amplitude and frequency, the VIV can be obviously mitigated, but the heave-related response in the coupled analysis seems to be close to that in the heave-only simulation. Finally, the fatigue damage near TDP is parametrically investigated based on the separate analysis and the coupled analysis. The results demonstrate that the coupled effect plays a significant role in the fatigue assessment near TDP. Besides, the proportion of the coupled effect accounting for the total fatigue damage decreases with the increasing seabed stiffness, while increases with the increasing seabed trench depth.
文摘深水钢悬链立管(Steel Catenary Riser,SCR)是浮式平台的主要部件,在服役条件下由于受到海洋特殊的海浪、潮汐、台风等各种环境因素的影响,极其容易发生疲劳破坏。为解决钢悬链立管在深水服役环境中受循环载荷的作用容易产生疲劳失效的问题,采用冷金属过渡(Cold Metal Transition,CMT)打底、脉冲模式填充盖面的熔化极气体保护焊(Gas Metal Arc Welding,GMAW),开发了钢悬链立管S型铺设全自动焊工艺并进行了焊缝性能试验研究。结果表明,横向拉伸、全焊缝拉伸、侧弯、缺口断裂、冲击、宏观硬度及全尺寸疲劳等试验结果均满足SCR焊接规格书要求;SCR环焊缝通过全尺寸疲劳试验测试,所有焊缝疲劳性能满足BS7608(1993)的外径D曲线和内径E曲线的95%置信水平要求;由于CMT冷金属过渡封底为无衬垫单面焊双面成型技术,具有焊接热输入量小、无飞溅等优点,可确保焊缝根部成形与母材圆滑过渡,减小SCR焊缝应力集中,从而提高其抗疲劳性能。
