Journal
OCEAN ENGINEERING
Volume 234, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.109323
Keywords
Subsea pipelines; Fatigue failure; Dynamic Bayesian network; Probabilistic assessment
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52004195]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020M673355]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [20CX02315A]
- Opening Fund of National Engineering Laboratory of Offshore Geophysical and Exploration Equipment
- Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Dalian University of Technology [LP2021]
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The probabilistic modeling of free spanning subsea pipeline fatigue failure is a challenging task due to its dynamic characteristics and uncertain information. This paper proposes a dynamic probabilistic methodology to capture the uncertainty and time dependence of fatigue failure scenario. By using Dynamic Bayesian Network, the model can estimate the probabilities of basic causations and assess the dynamic probability of fatigue failure at different time slices.
The pipeline spanning is triggered by the unevenness of the seabed. The cyclic fatigue loadings from the subsequent scouring make the spanning pipeline be prone to be fatigue failure which can cause the loss of pipeline integrity and even catastrophic accident. However, probabilistic modeling of a free spanning subsea pipeline fatigue failure is a challenging task due to its dynamic characteristics and uncertain information. This paper proposes a dynamic probabilistic methodology that could capture the uncertainty and time dependence of the fatigue failure scenario of free spanning subsea pipelines. Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) is adopted to develop the accident scenario by finding the fatigue failure causations and derived events. The probabilities of basic causations are estimated by fuzzy set and evidence theory considering their uncertain characteristics. The established model can capture the dynamic fatigue accumulation of pipelines over their entire service life and assess the dynamic probability of fatigue failure at different time slices. Besides, the most credible causations of fatigue failure can be figured out due to the diagnostic ability of the model. A real-field case study is used to demonstrate the application of different steps of the developed methodology. It is observed that the methodology can be a useful tool to analyze dynamic fatigue failure risk of spanning subsea pipelines.
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