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Flexible Pipes: Advances in Pipes and Pipelines

ISBN: 978-1-119-04129-0

May 2017

640 pages

Description

Written by one of the most well-respected teams of scientists in the area of pipelines, this revolutionary approach offers the engineer working in the energy industry the theory, analysis, and practical applications for applying new materials and modeling to the design and effective use of flexible pipes.

Recent changes in the codes for building pipelines has led to a boom in the production of new materials that can be used in flexible pipes. With the use of polymers, steel, and other new materials and variations on existing materials, the construction and, therefore, the installation and operation of flexible pipes is changing and being improved upon all over the world. The authors of this work have written numerous books and papers on these subjects and are some of the most influential authors on flexible pipes in the world, contributing much of the literature on this subject to the industry. This new volume is a presentation of some of the most cutting-edge technological advances in technical publishing.

This is the most comprehensive and in-depth book on this subject, covering not just the various materials and their aspects that make them different, but every process that goes into their installation, operation, and design. The thirty-six chapters, divided up into four different parts, have had not just the authors of this text but literally dozens of other engineers who are some of the world's leading scientists in this area contribute to the work. This is the future of pipelines, and it is an important breakthrough. A must-have for the veteran engineer and student alike, this volume is an important new advancement in the energy industry, a strong link in the chain of the world's energy production.

About the Author

Qiang Bai, PhD, has more than 20 years of experience in subsea and offshore engineering. He has taught at Kyushu University in Japan, UCLA in the USA, and he has worked at OPE, JP Kenny, and Technip. He is also the coauthor of three influential books on pipelines, which are standard in the industry.

Yong Bai, PhD, is the president of Offshore Pipelines & Risers Inc. in Houston, and is a professor and the director of the Offshore Engineering Research Center at Zhejiang University. He has previously taught at Stavanger University in Norway where he was a professor of offshore structures and has also worked with ABS as manager of the Offshore Technology Department as the JIP project manager and has also worked for Shell International E & P, JP Kenny, and MCS, where he was vice president of engineering. He is the co-author of two books on pipelines and over 100 papers on the design and installation of subsea pipelines and risers.

Weidong Ruan, PhD, is the author of numerous papers in the field of flexible pipelines and has co-authored chapters of books on pipelines and risers.