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SUMMARY:CESS seminar series - Technological Challenges for Deep-Water Stee
 l Pipeline Construction
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Spyros A. Karamanos\, University of Thessaly\, Volos (
 Greece)\nAbstract\nThe construction of steel hydrocarbon pipelines in deep
  sea is a technological challenge. Recent scientific and engineering advan
 cements allow for the design and installation of pipelines at depths that 
 exceed 2\,000 meters. The present lecture is motivated by the recent devel
 opments on natural gas exploitation and production in East Mediterranean. 
 In that region\, major gas pipelines are designed for installation in wate
 r depths that reach 3\,000 meters\, to transmit the produced natural gas t
 o the European market.\n\nThe first part of the lecture presents the basic
  parameters of offshore pipeline structural design and the corresponding l
 imit states from a holistic point-of-view\, from line pipe production at t
 he pipe mill to the installation process in deep water. The second part of
  the lecture summarizes recent state-of-the-art research at the University
  of Thessaly on two topics related to the structural integrity of offshore
  pipelines\, namely: (a) the effect of line pipe manufacturing process on 
 the collapse strength of deep offshore pipelines\, and (b) the structural 
 performance of bi-material pipes (also called “lined pipes”)\, a rathe
 r new\, very efficient solution for mitigating internal corrosion of the p
 ipeline.\n\nShort bio\nSpyros A. Karamanos is Professor of Computational S
 tructural Mechanics in Mechanical Engineering\, at the University of Thess
 aly\, Volos\, Greece. During 2016-2019\, he was Professor and Chair of Str
 uctural Engineering\, The University of Edinburgh\, Scotland\, UK\, in par
 allel to his professorship in Greece.\nHe received his five-year Diploma i
 n Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens\, Gre
 ece\, in 1989 with highest honors\, and his M.Sc. (1991) and Ph.D. (1993) 
 degrees in Structural Engineering & Mechanics\, from The University of Tex
 as at Austin\, USA.\nHis research and professional interests include Struc
 tural Mechanics\, Numerical Methods and Finite Elements\, Structural Stabi
 lity\, Inelastic Behavior\, Analysis and Design of Metal Structures agains
 t Fatigue\, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. He specializes
  in structural mechanics and integrity of energy infrastructure systems\, 
 focusing on buckling and fatigue of pipelines and offshore structures\, ma
 inly tubular components and systems\, using computational and experimental
  methods. His research has been funded primarily by European research proj
 ects\, with the participation of European steel and pipeline industry\, al
 so directly by industrial partners. He has published more than 85 papers i
 n refereed journals and more than 170 papers in conference proceedings.
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