Stability of a Cylinder Resting on a Plane Rigid Surface-Regular Waves

Given the hostilc nature offshore environment, wave-induced instability is one of the
major problems encountered in submarine pipeline analysis. The wave induced instability
occurred due to the loading of the hydrodynamic forces cxciled by the propagating waves
and currents on the submarine pipelines. The mama objective of this project is to determine the minimum in-line lorces leading to
the point of instability of submarine pipelines subjected to exposure of regular waves. I or
this project, the horiiontal stability of submarine pipelines under the exposure to regular
waves as studied. I he project consisted of live stages namely literature and theory
rcvic%%, fabrication of pipeline model, physical modeling, analyiation phase and the
fittalüing of the I' inal Report.