Flexible tubular member (28) subsea system provided with a controllable curvature flexible pipe

摘要

The invention relates to a curvature limiter (28) for a hydrocarbon transferringsubsea system (10) characterised in that it comprises a flexible tubular member(28) which an intermediate portion (22) of the flexible pipe (20) passes through,said flexible tubular member (28) comprises a plurality of successive substantiallycylindrical sections which are hingedly mounted with respect to each other ata predetermined maximum displacement thereof defining a mean plane in such away that said flexible tubular member (28) forms a mean curvature having the predeterminedcurvature radius on said mean plane .