Marine pipeline damage subjected to dropped objects from platforms or supply vessels is analyzed to introduce an easy and applicable approach to investigating the damage induced by impact load from drop weight. A practical engineering example was presented and analyzed using the commercial program 'ANSYS/LS-DYNA', which is a powerful tool with an explicit dynamic solver. And rational agreement of the results with previous works was obtained. The suggested procedure might be taken as a checking analysis of the protection measures of pipelines in addition to the general risk assessment method.
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