... ABSTRACT Flexible pipes have been increasingly used in the last 10 years for dynamic risers. Their multi-layer composite structure offers the flexibility of polymers and the strength of steel. The present methods to assess their integrity is by periodic pressure testing or to remove a test...

...INCREASED RELIABILITY THROUGH A UNIFIED ANALYSIS TOOL FOR BONDED AND NON-BONDED PIPES. L S. A. ~ ~ t b e i t and Ola Often BrasNor A.S. , p.o box 24, N-1364 Hvalstad, Norway 1 ABSTRACT Methods to predict stresses in flexible pipe under both combined loading and damaging loads on flexible pipes...

... The quayside cost of flexible pipe pipe has hitherto generally been several times the quayside cost of corresponding rigid steel pipe The use of flexible pipe has therefore been confined to applications where there was an obvious inherent technical advantage, for example dynamic risers and subsea jumpers...

...THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH NDT OF EIIG3-X PRESSURE FLEXIBLE PIPES Authors. G.T.Ashcombe and Dr. R.C.Kenlson BP Engineering. ABSTRACT. The variety of materials used In the manufacture of high pressure flexlble plpes provides, in the first ~nstance, an extensive range of possible NDT methods...