Submarine Cables and Umbilicals
Design, Mechanics, and Analysis
- 1st Edition - May 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Authors: Pan Fang, Yong Bai
- Language: English
This book provides an integrated treatment of the design and analysis of submarine power cables and umbilicals. It combines analytical, numerical, and experimental approa… Read more
Description
Description
This book provides an integrated treatment of the design and analysis of submarine power cables and umbilicals. It combines analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches to address the behaviour of complex multilayered and helically structured systems under tension, bending, torsion, pressure, and combined loading, while also considering electrical and thermal effects. The book is organised into three parts. Part I develops the mechanical analysis of submarine power cables, progressing from system-level behaviour to local cross-sectional mechanics and reduced-unit-cell modelling, with applications to tension, bending, torsion, corrosion damage, and combined loading. Part II extends this framework to multiscale and multiphysics problems in dynamic submarine power cables, including global cable response, fatigue, thermo-electro-mechanical coupling, current-carrying capacity, electromagnetic losses, and insulation behavior. Part III provides a life-cycle treatment of umbilicals, covering overall and cross-sectional design, mechanical analysis, manufacturing, testing, and installation, together with a detailed tension-torsion case study. By linking mechanics, multiphysics modelling, and practical engineering workflows, the book provides a unified reference for researchers, engineers, and graduate students working on submarine cables, dynamic power cables, umbilicals, and related slender offshore structures.
Key features
Key features
- Provides an integrated treatment of submarine power cables and umbilicals, from global and local mechanics to multiscale and multiphysics analysis
- Presents analytical, numerical and experimental methods for tension, bending, torsion, contact, fatigue and combined loading of complex multilayered cable structures
- Connects mechanical analysis with electro-thermal behaviour, current-carrying capacity, electromagnetic losses, insulation performance and dynamic-cable response
- Covers the complete engineering workflow for umbilicals, including overall and cross-sectional design, mechanical analysis, manufacturing, testing and installation
Readership
Readership
Researchers and mid/upper level undergrad and graduate students studying power cables, umbilical cables, and submarine cables
Table of contents
Table of contents
Part I: Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
1. Introduction to Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
2. A Review of the Overall Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
3. Methods for the Local Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables: A Systemic Literature Review
4. Methodology for the Local Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
5. Mechanical Responses of Single-Core Submarine Power Cables Subject to Axisymmetric Loadings
6. Mechanical Analysis of Three-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Tension
7. Mechanical Analysis of Single-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Bending
8. Mechanical Analysis of Three-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Bending
9. Mechanical Analysis of Three-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Combined Loadings
10. Bending Analysis of Submarine Power Cables Under the Effects of Multi-physical Fields
11. Conclusions to Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
Part II: Dynamic Submarine Cable Section Design, Thermoelectric Field, and Fatigue Analysis
12. Introduction to Dynamic Submarine Cable Section Design, Thermoelectric Field, and Fatigue Analysis
13. Literature Review of Multi-Physical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
14. Cross-Sectional Analysis of Dynamic Submarine Cables
15. Analysis of Current-Carrying Capacity of Dynamic Submarine Cables
16. Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Coupling Analysis of Dynamic Submarine Cables
17. Energy Losses and Insulation Analysis of Dynamic Submarine Cables
18. Fatigue Strength Analysis of Submarine Cables
19. Conclusions to Dynamic Submarine Cable Section Design, Thermoelectric Field, and Fatigue Analysis
Part III: Umbilicals
20. Introduction to Umbilicals and Their Development
21. Overall Design of Umbilicals
22. Cross Sectional Design of Umbilicals
23. Mechanical Analysis of Umbilical Cables in Subsea Production Systems
24. Manufacturing of Subsea Production System Flexible Risers
25. Testing of Underwater Umbilical Systems
26. Installation of Umbilicals in Underwater Production Systems
27. Theoretical and Finite-Element Study of Mechanical Behavior of Central, Large-Diameter Umbilical Cables Under Tension and Torsion
28. Failure Prediction and Local Mechanical Analysis of Steel Strip Flexible Pipes Under Bending
1. Introduction to Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
2. A Review of the Overall Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
3. Methods for the Local Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables: A Systemic Literature Review
4. Methodology for the Local Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
5. Mechanical Responses of Single-Core Submarine Power Cables Subject to Axisymmetric Loadings
6. Mechanical Analysis of Three-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Tension
7. Mechanical Analysis of Single-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Bending
8. Mechanical Analysis of Three-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Bending
9. Mechanical Analysis of Three-Core Submarine Power Cables Under Combined Loadings
10. Bending Analysis of Submarine Power Cables Under the Effects of Multi-physical Fields
11. Conclusions to Mechanical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
Part II: Dynamic Submarine Cable Section Design, Thermoelectric Field, and Fatigue Analysis
12. Introduction to Dynamic Submarine Cable Section Design, Thermoelectric Field, and Fatigue Analysis
13. Literature Review of Multi-Physical Analysis of Submarine Power Cables
14. Cross-Sectional Analysis of Dynamic Submarine Cables
15. Analysis of Current-Carrying Capacity of Dynamic Submarine Cables
16. Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Coupling Analysis of Dynamic Submarine Cables
17. Energy Losses and Insulation Analysis of Dynamic Submarine Cables
18. Fatigue Strength Analysis of Submarine Cables
19. Conclusions to Dynamic Submarine Cable Section Design, Thermoelectric Field, and Fatigue Analysis
Part III: Umbilicals
20. Introduction to Umbilicals and Their Development
21. Overall Design of Umbilicals
22. Cross Sectional Design of Umbilicals
23. Mechanical Analysis of Umbilical Cables in Subsea Production Systems
24. Manufacturing of Subsea Production System Flexible Risers
25. Testing of Underwater Umbilical Systems
26. Installation of Umbilicals in Underwater Production Systems
27. Theoretical and Finite-Element Study of Mechanical Behavior of Central, Large-Diameter Umbilical Cables Under Tension and Torsion
28. Failure Prediction and Local Mechanical Analysis of Steel Strip Flexible Pipes Under Bending
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: May 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
PF
Pan Fang
Affiliations and expertise
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent University, BelgiumYB
Yong Bai
Dr. Yong Bai holds the position of Chair Professor at Zhejiang University (China) and is also an academician at the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. He is a fellow of the US Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the UK Royal Institution of Naval Architects. With an extensive background in offshore engineering structures and pipelines, Prof. Bai has held professorships at renowned universities, significantly contributing to the global offshore oil and gas industry through his publications and innovative achievements.
Affiliations and expertise
Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, China