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Zhang, X., Guedes Soares, C., An, C. and Duan, M. G. (2018) , “An Unified formula for the critical force of lateral buckling of imperfect submarine pipelines”, Ocean Engineering , Vol. 166, pp. 324-335
Unburied submarine pipelines might buckle laterally under the conditions of high temperature and high pressure. As an important design parameter of submarine pipelines, the lateral buckling critical force (LBCF) is affected by the maximum amplitude, wavelength, shape of the initial imperfection, and etc. However, the exact relationship between the LBCF and the initial imperfection shape is not clear at present. In this paper, the lateral buckling behavior of submarine pipelines with different initial imperfection shapes is studied using 3D finite element (FE) analysis. A parametric study is conducted and the characteristic parameter of the initial imperfection shape is found. It is the characteristic parameter that makes the LBCF greatly affected by the initial imperfection shape. A unified formula is proposed to reveal the exact relationship between the LBCF and the initial imperfection shape. An application of the unified formula is carried out and the results show the accuracy of the unified formula.
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