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6.3 Primary PhD Achievements<br />

The earlier section presented the summary <strong>an</strong>d conclusions achieved from the work<br />

carried out in this research. A list of main contributions is given here.<br />

Composite repair using the wet wrap application is shown to be <strong>an</strong> effective<br />

technique in reducing the SCF due to defects. The technique is cost effective <strong>an</strong>d<br />

c<strong>an</strong> increase the life of existing pipelines with defect, eliminating the need for<br />

replacing the pipeline.<br />

Effects of the number of layers on SCF<br />

Effects of defect length, repair length <strong>an</strong>d etc on SCF.<br />

A complete methodology of the <strong>integrated</strong> Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)<br />

approach using simulation <strong>an</strong>d experiment has provided <strong>an</strong> overview of the<br />

pipeline integrity m<strong>an</strong>agement programme <strong>an</strong>d assessed the integrity of bonding<br />

between the pipeline <strong>an</strong>d composite repair in the economic <strong>an</strong>d effective way.<br />

In practice, no model c<strong>an</strong> claim to produce exact behaviours of this stress strain<br />

distribution without a proper validation from experiments. But this research has<br />

proven that this c<strong>an</strong> be accurately achieved if sensible procedures <strong>an</strong>d guidelines<br />

are properly pl<strong>an</strong>ned <strong>an</strong>d established.<br />

A simple method to study the thermal strain in the pipeline repair has been<br />

developed. This method demonstrates the easiest way to determine the<br />

coefficient of thermal exp<strong>an</strong>sion of the <strong>an</strong>isotropic composite <strong>an</strong>d the isotropic<br />

steel without applying the st<strong>an</strong>dard laboratory procedures which are more<br />

expensive <strong>an</strong>d complicated.<br />

The pressure <strong>an</strong>d temperature interch<strong>an</strong>geable test rig developed in this<br />

experiment c<strong>an</strong> be used as <strong>an</strong> example of a versatile product demonstrator in the<br />

future. With the same specifications, the composite m<strong>an</strong>ufacturer c<strong>an</strong> fabricate a<br />

similar structure <strong>an</strong>d specifications, <strong>an</strong>d apply the same numerical <strong>an</strong>d<br />

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