Behavior of wrinkled steel pipelines subjected to cyclic axial loadings

摘要

Full-scale laboratory tests were carried out at the University of Alberta to investigate the post-wrinkling ultimate behavior of steel pipelines. The pipe specimens exhibited extreme ductile behavior and did not fail in fracture under monotonically increasing axisymmetric compressive axial loads and displacements. Fractures developed at the wrinkled region, however, when a wrinkled pipe specimen was subjected to cyclic strain reversals due to unloading and loading of primary loads. This paper presents test procedures, complete post-wrinkling behavior, fracture limit strain values, and fracture configurations obtained from full-scale tests on wrinkled pipe specimens under cyclic and monotonic axial loadings.