Fatigue Failure Mechanisms in Critical Tubular Joints of Gulf of Guinea Jackets: S–N, Fracture Mechanics and Corrosion Ageing Interaction
This paper analyses the fatigue failure mechanisms that govern the residual life of critical tubular joints on a representative Gulf of Guinea (GoG) steel jacket platform. Both the conventional S–N (Palmgren–Miner cumulative damage) and fracture-mechanics (Paris–Erdogan crack-growth) approaches are applied, with explic...