Hi Fanaticos
I've never tried to model flexible pipes in Abaqus, but I've heard that it's very difficult. However, there are specialised softwares that can deal with flexible pipes such as Flexcom and Ocraflex.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexcom
Hope this helps,
Senan
Hi
I'm performing a VIV fatigue analyses of proposed 3D spools design based on DNV-RP-F105. The proposed spool contain 2 large spans. I've calculated the natural frequency, but now I need to calculate the unit diameter stress amplitude (this is defined in F105 as the stress due to unit outer...