Fatigue of dented pipes

A dented pipe fails either through being punctured or by fatigue damage accumulation due to internal pressure fluctuation. Increasing the wall thickness may prevent these failures but is impractical. As a pipe is punctured, transmission services must be cut off and repair processes have to be made i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luo, Renfan
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13984/