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Meet us at the Offshore Pipeline Technology Conference (OPT2015) in Amsterdam

OPT2015

The SAGE Profile team will be present at the 38th edition of the Offshore Pipeline Technology Conference  (25th and 26th February 2015, Amsterdam) and preceding seminar on Pipeline Global Buckling Design (24th February).

During the seminar, we will discuss an integrated numerical approach to design offshore pipelines susceptible to lateral buckling as well as numerical simulation of upheaval buckling using “intelligent” backfill soil springs.

Join us at the Fugro booth for a prime-time demo of the new SAGE Profile 3.0, and to meet our geotechnical engineers and pipeline consultants. We look forward to meeting you there!

Behind the curtains: SAGE Profile 3D 3.0 is under construction!

During 2014, the entire SAGE Profile team has been working hard on the development of SAGE Profile 3D 3.0, a major upgrade that will feature a brand new graphical user interface and a wide variety of new  capabilities.

This new version will offer a seabed modification module, allowing to fill gaps in the seabed profile or cut steep slopes for free span rectification. In addition, we have introduced an intelligent backfill soil spring which enables to predict the susceptibility of buried pipelines to upheaval buckling. Our brand new trenching module allows simulating the process of cutting the seabed, lowering down the pipeline in the trench, and subsequently backfilling. The use of object contact allows modelling seabed sleepers, pipeline crossings or concrete mattresses. In addition, the new release offers the ability to model fully bonded pipe-in-pipe systems. The brand new graphical user interface has been designed in a wizard-type approach, to make the learning curve even gentler.

The SAGE team is currently testing and validating this new version, which will be released in summer 2015. Below, you can take a peek preview of what’s on our drawing board… Stay tuned!

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SAGE Profile v3.0 brand new graphical user interface 

Meet us at the Offshore Pipeline Technology Conference (OPT2015) in Amsterdam

The SAGE Profile team will be present at the 38th edition of the Offshore Pipeline Technology Conference  (25th and 26th February 2015, Amsterdam) and preceding seminar on Pipeline Global Buckling Design (24th February).

During the seminar, we will discuss an integrated numerical approach to design offshore pipelines susceptible to either upheaval or lateral buckling.

Join us at the Fugro booth for a prime-time demo of the new SAGE Profile 3.0, and to meet our geotechnical engineers and pipeline consultants. We look forward to meeting you there!

SAGE Profile explores fully bonded pipe-in-pipe systems

Thanks to their exceptional thermal insulation capability, Pipe-in-Pipe (PIP) systems are well suited for the transportation of hydrocarbons at high pressure and high temperatures (HP/HT), preventing hydrate formation and ensuring high discharge temperatures at the arrival facility.

In this whitepaper resulting from a close interaction between Fugro GeoConsulting, Genesis Oil and Gas and different Universities, Filip Van den Abeele reviews and compares different numerical approaches to simulate the structural response of a pipe-in-pipe system. The fully bonded PIP system can be simulated using an equivalent diameter approach, replacing both pipes by a single pipe with an equivalent mass and bending stiffness. This approach has been pursued to evaluate the mechanical response of a PIP system in a free span. A formulation is presented to reconstruct the stress distributions in the inner and outer pipes based on the strains and bending moments calculated for the equivalent cross section. The results show that the equivalent pipe section methodology can be used for on-bottom roughness analysis and free span assessment of fully bonded Pipe-in-Pipe systems.

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 Free Spanning Pipe in Pipe: Benchmark between SAGE Profile 3D and Abaqus

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