In-place stability of submarine pipelines based on water-soil-pipeline coupling analysis platform

MENG Chuiqian; WANG Le; ZHANG Chunhui; WANG Zhichao; TIAN Yinghui

doi:10.11779/CJGE20230368

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MENG Chuiqian, WANG Le, ZHANG Chunhui, WANG Zhichao, TIAN Yinghui. In-place stability of submarine pipelines based on water-soil-pipeline coupling analysis platform[J]. Chinese Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, 2025, 47(3): 618-626. DOI: 10.11779/CJGE20230368

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In-place stability of submarine pipelines based on water-soil-pipeline coupling analysis platform

MENG Chuiqian^{1, 2, 3,},
WANG Le^{1, 2, ,},
ZHANG Chunhui^{4, 5},
WANG Zhichao⁶,
TIAN Yinghui⁷

1.
School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
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State Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering Intelligent Construction and Operation, Tianjin 300350, China
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Beijing Huairou Laboratory, Beijing 101499, China
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School of Civil Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, China
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Hebei Technological Innovation Center of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering of Geotechnical and Structural System, Shijiazhuang 050018, China
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School of Civil Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China
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Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 3010, Australia

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Received Date: April 26, 2023

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The submarine pipeline is a key component of deep-sea oil and gas engineering, and the in-place stability of pipelines is affected by ocean waves and hydrodynamic loads, soil resistance and pipeline characteristics. The existing analytical methods are difficult to accurately evaluate the in-place stability of submarine pipelines under water-soil-pipe coupling. For this reason, a pipeline-water interaction analysis program and a pipeline-soil interaction analysis program are established using the FORTRAN programming language firstly. The former uses the Fourier analysis to calculate the hydrodynamic loads acting on the pipelines, and corrects the loads based on displacement change of the pipelines in real time. The latter is based on the existing pipeline-soil interaction model to calculate the horizontal soil resistance of the pipelines during movement. Subsequently, the above programs are coupled based on the DLOAD and UEL subroutines in the finite element analysis software ABAQUS to ultimately form a water-soil-pipeline coupling analysis platform for analyzing the in-place stability of the submarine pipelines. The effects of sea conditions, soil properties and pipeline shape parameters on the in-place stability of the pipelines are comprehensively considered in the platform, providing a reference for the in-place stability analysis of the submarine pipelines in practical projects.
- submarine pipeline,
- computing platform,
- stability analysis,
- hydrodynamics,
- pipe-soil interaction

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