Structural and Thermal Analyses of Deepwater Pipes

Introduction.- Part I - Limit Strength of Sandwich Pipes.- Sandwich Pipes.- Sandwich Pipes Filled with Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete.- Sandwich Pipes Filled with PVA Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites.- Buckle Propagation of Sandwich Pipes.- Sandwich Pipe: Reel-Lay Installation Effects.- Part II - Dynamics of Fluid-Conveying Pipes.- Integral Transform Solutions of Solid and Structural Mechanics Problems.- Pipes Conveying Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow.- Pipes Conveying Vertical Slug Flow.- Pipes Conveying Horizontal Slug Flow.- Axially functionally graded pipes conveying fluid.- Part III - Thermal Analysis of Multilayer Pipelines Fundamentals of Thermal Analysis.- Steady State Thermal Analysis.- Steady-State Analysis of Heavy Oil Transportation Analysis of Direct Electrical Heating.- Transient Analysis of Multilayer Composite Pipelines with Active Heating.

Prof. Dr. Chen An is Associate Professor of the Faculty of Safety and Ocean Engineering at China University of Petroleum-Beijing, where he has been since 2013. He received a B.S. from Dalian University of Technology in 2003, and a M.Sc. from the Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm. He received his D.Sc. in Ocean Engineering from COPPE of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His research interests span local buckling, dynamic response and thermal insulation of subsea pipelines. He is the author of over 30 journal and conference papers on structural behavior of subsea pipelines and risers.

Prof. Dr. Menglan Duan held a Bachelor's degree (1987) in petroleum drilling engineering at the department of petroleum engineering, Jianghan University of Petroleum (Yangtze University since 2003), a Master's degree (1990) in offshore structural engineering and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in petroleum mechanical engineering at the department of mechanical engineering, University of Petroleum of China. Then he served as senior engineer, research professor, chief engineering at the headquarter of China Classification Society till 2006. In 2006, he joined the China University of Petroleum-Beijing, and now the dean of Faculty of Safety and Ocean Engineering. He is Professor of solid mechanics and ocean engineering, published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, acted as project manager for over 150 projects in ocean engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering. He is the chairman of Specialist Committee V.8 Subsea Technology of the 20th International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2018, the chairman of China Branch of the Society for Underwater Technology, and the member of the EU Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Dr. Segen F. Estefen is currently Professor of Ocean Structures and Subsea Engineering at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he is the general manager of the Subsea Technology Laboratory. He is a