A New Shape of Snaked-lay Pipeline

摘要

Snaked-lay pipeline is an effective method for control lateral buckling of pipeline, which is used widely. For design of snaked-lay pipeline the key is how to control lateral buckling of pipeline, namely, the lateral buckling is triggered at the designed location, the moment and strain of post buckling are acceptable. A new shape of snaked-lay pipeline is presented. Based on ANSYS, nonlinear finite element of pipeline is built. Comparisons show that the critical buckling load, moment and strain of post-buckling are all reduced for the new shape of snaked-lay pipeline.