海洋管道S型铺设过程研究

随着海洋科学技术的发展和人类对于海洋油气资源认识的不断增加,海洋油气资源的开发从近海走向远海。作为海洋油气运输主要方式的海洋管道,其铺设问题成为焦点。常见海洋管道工程铺设方法为:拖曳铺设、卷筒铺设、J型铺设、S型铺设。通过引入先进的国际海洋工程软件OrcaFlex并结合国内外关于海洋管道铺设的工程手册及相关规范、标准,如DNV、API、AWS等,实时模拟研究S型海洋管道铺设过程。结合作者工作经历及实际海洋铺管工程背景算例分析,研究铺管上弓段接触点、悬垂段及触底段在铺设过程中的各自静力、动力特性。对海洋管道S型铺设过程中应该注意的一些有关设计、工艺和HSE低成本安全高效铺设等方面提出几点有用的意见。     

Configuration analysis of deepwater S-lay pipeline

The safety of offshore pipeline has drawn a great deal of attention during deepwater installation due to the combined actions of high external pressure, axial tension, and bending moment. Meanwhile, the pipeline configuration has a remarkable effect on the structural behaviour of the tube. The special studies focus on the deepwater S-lay technique in the present paper. The stiffened catenary theory is applied to establish the static equilibrium governing differential equation of a pipe element, and the solution equations of the total pipeline configuration from a lay-barge over a stinger to the seabed are derived. The numerical iteration method for solving pipeline configuration is described in detail, and the corresponding program is developed to conduct the analysis of effects of various parameters such as laying water depth, pipe diameter, thickness of concrete weighted coating layer, stinger length, control strain, and axial tension on pipeline configuration. The results show that the laying water depth, the submerged weight of the pipe, and the axial tension are the critical factors influencing pipeline configuration. In addition, geometrical parameters of the stinger such as length, radius, and shape have an important effect on the pipe-laying capacity of the vessel. The validity of the program is further verified by means of a comparison with results obtained from the commercial finite element software OFFPIPE.     

深水管道S型铺设托管架基本设计分析

将上弯段管道依照托辊分布划分为若干对称微段,通过微分求解,结合设计规范,得到了托管架几何参数:托管架弧长、曲率半径、托辊长度及间距设计的控制方程;分析发现,托管架最大曲率由两部分组成:托管架整体曲率和托辊处局部曲率,分别由托管架几何参数和托辊参数控制;通过对比商业软件计算结果及现有托管架结构设计参数,证明了结论的正确性及有效性。控制方程表达简单,易为工程设计人员掌握。     

Study on the contact behavior of pipe and rollers in deep S-lay

S-lay is a widely used method for offshore pipe installation. In recent years, S-lay has gradually applied to the deepwater condition. Because of the increasing pipe weight in deep S-lay, there exist severe and complex contact problems between the overbend pipe and roller supports of the stinger. In deep S-lay design, it is difficult to solve this nonlinear mechanics problem, and there remain confusion and difficulties to predict the roller contact forces and the pipe strain level in S-lay design.The present paper develops a refined finite element model with the framework of ABAQUS, which considers the complex surface contact behaviors in the overbend section. The features of the contact state of different rollers within one roller box are discussed, and the resultant support forces from each roller box are calculated and compared with the commercial design code. The overbend strain level of five S-lay cases is investigated and the pipelaying safety is checked by DNV rules. The simulation results show that the proposed model can provide more accurate and reasonable predictions on roller forces and pipe strain distribution for deepwater S-lay design.     

全耦合S型铺管动力定位时域分析

为研究S型铺管船铺管工况下的动力定位系统性能,进行了船体-托管架-管道的耦合作用下的动力定位模拟。采用广义弹性面接触法模拟托管架上托辊,莫里森杆构建托管架模型,集中质量法计算管道受力,并应用PID和Kalman滤波相结合的控制系统和序列二次规划法进行分配的推力系统,进行了全耦合S型铺管动力定位时域分析;研究了船体波频运动对于管道-托管架耦合作用力和动力定位系统的影响;比较分析了铺管工况和非铺管工况下的定位精度影响;同时应用API规范对管道应力进行校核,验证了该耦合模拟的正确性。结果表明,垂荡和艏摇对于管道-托管架-船体之间的耦合作用力对动力定位系统影响很大,在动力定位系统设计时,需要着重考虑。减小纵摇和迎浪铺管是使铺管作业和动力定位系统安全有效的重要方法。     

深水S-lay管道形态和内力分析的分段解析方法

考虑深水S型铺设中离散均布托辊对上弯段管道的支撑作用,提出了管道铺设形态和内力的分段解析求解方法,通过迭代搜索算法确定管道最佳反弯点和升离点的位置,结合刚性悬链线理论和欧拉梁弯曲理论,推导了管道的变形和内力的解析表达式。依据所建立的分段解析方法编制了相应的数值计算程序,以某3 000 m水深铺设12英寸管道为例,计算了管道形态和内力响应,与商用有限元软件的数值分析结果进行对比,表明了分段解析方法的准确性和有效性。建立的方法具有较高的计算效率,为进一步开展S型铺设参数的优化或可靠性研究提供了有力的手段。     

深水S型铺管中残余变形对屈曲压力的影响

随着S型海管铺设逐步走向深水,管道在铺设过程中承受的荷载增加,发生一定程度的塑性变形。本文讨论S型铺设引起的残余塑性变形对管道屈曲承载能力的影响。首先基于壳单元建立"管道-托辊"相互作用的局部有限元模型,分析了管道在铺设过程中的受力状态,获得了管道的残余塑性变形。然后以该残余变形作为管道非线性屈曲分析的初始缺陷,基于改进的RIKS方法计算了管道的临界屈曲压力。研究结果表明,铺设残余塑性变形在一定程度上削弱管道的承载能力,在深水铺设中应予以考虑。     

深水管道S型铺设监测研究

目前,深水管道S型铺设取得了优异的铺设成果,逐渐成为深水海底管道铺设的重要方法,但其铺设环境复杂,上弯段管道与托管架动态接触,现有分析手段无法有效模拟。同时,S型铺设关键设备的设计技术还不成熟,没有相应的设计规范。首先对深水管道S型铺设开展监测研究,提出了深水管道S型铺监测方案,最后利用实验室模型实验验证了该方案的可行性,可以为深水S型铺设关键设备的设计提供必要的设计数据。