OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox

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July 2016

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 Offshore Pipeline S-Lay Design

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 Offshore Pipeline S-Lay Design
What is S-Lay?

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 Offshore Pipeline S-Lay Design
Traditional Method

INPUT PIPELINE BENDING RADIUS & TENSION FINITE ELEMENTS ANALYSIS

TOOLS:
1. Try a pipeline bending radius
OFFPIPE
 Draw laybarge, stinger and pipeline model
in Auto CAD; PipeLay

 Adjust laybarge and stinger profile to Flexcom

make all the rollers contacting the
pipeline;

 Read roller supports coordinates and

input them to analysis software. NO YES
The stress is acceptable? END
2. Try a value of tension

PURPOSE

Find an acceptable combination of

pipeline bending radius & tension

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 Offshore Pipeline S-Lay Design
Disadvantages of Traditional Method

DISADVANTAGES

Wasting time and labor;

Can not get the best combination which brings the minimum stress;

For stinger with more than 2 sections, it is difficult to get coordinates of

roller supports;

Boring to edit input file of FEA software.

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 What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?

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What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?
The Best Enhancement Tool for OFFPIPE

OFFPIPE Assistant

Stinger Builder

OFFPIPE Assistant Ramberg-Osgood Convertor

Toolbox

OFFPIPE Grapher

OFFPIPE WaveSpec

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What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?
Build Detailed Laybarge & Stinger Model

Stinger Builder

► The member software Stinger BuilderTM helps you to build detailed models for S-lay
laybarge and stinger and calculate precise coordinates of roller supports according
to the specified pipeline radius.

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What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?
Conduct Finite Element Analysis

OFFPIPE Assistant

► OFFPIPE Assistant conducts static finite element analysis for normal pipe laying
according to engineering parameters input by users.
Analysis Result
0

-100

-200

-300

-400

-500

-600
Moment (kN-m)

-700

-800

-900

-1,000

-1,100

-1,200

-1,300

-1,400
-1,500

-110 -100 -90 -80 -70 -60 -50 -40 -30 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50
Pipe Horizontal X Coordinate (m)

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What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?
Optimized laying parameters selection.

OFFPIPE Assistant

► OFFPIPE Assistant will help you to get perfect laybarge/stinger profile and tension
which produce minimum pipeline stress by computing and comparing hundreds of
FEM analysis results.

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What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?
Get Ramberg-Osgood Parameters.

Ramberg-Osgood Convertor

► Ramberg-Osgood Convertor is developed to transform Ramberg-Osgood equation

from stress-strain form to moment-curvature form for offshore pipelines.

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What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?
Graph OFFPIPE output file.

OFFPIPE Grapher

► OFFPIPE Grapher is used to read, filter, chart OFFPIPE output files and show
maximum variable values.

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What can OFFPIPE Assistant Toolbox do?
Simulate wave spectrum according to the algorithm of OFFPIPE

OFFPIPE WaveSpec

► OFFPIPE WaveSpec is developed to simulate wave spectrum according to the

algorithm of OFFPIPE. User can get maximum / minimum key values of wave and their
occurring time, and then determine the key analysis time area which should be
adopted by OFFPIPE.

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 How to Use

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How to Use
Build laybarge & stinger model using Stinger Builder

Stinger Builder interface Main menu and tool buttons

Operation Window
Tree View Description Window

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How to Use
Input project parameters

OFFPIPE Assistant interface Main menu and tool buttons

Operation Window
Tree View Description Window

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How to Use
Run Analysis

Run Analysis

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How to Use
Run Analysis

Scope of Radius & Tension

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How to Use
Outputs

Best Radius & Tension

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How to Use
Outputs

Roller Supports Coordinates

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How to Use
Outputs

Laybarge & Stinger Configuration

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How to Use
Outputs

OFFPIPE Input File

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How to Use
Outputs

Analysis Result

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How to Use
Outputs

View Chart

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How to Use
Outputs

View 3D Model

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