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List of BFLEX2010 example cases

A set of example cases are presented below.

Table 1. Example cases
Model Features Modules

Basic pipe52 model

stub model, flexcross

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Bend stiffener with pipe52

flexcross, bend stiffener

bflex2010, bflex2010post

Bend stiffener with pipe52 and hshear352

flexcross, bend stiffener

bflex2010, bflex2010post

Bend stiffener with separate node system

flexcross, bend stiffener, cont130

bflex2010, bflex2010post

Bellmouth

flexcross, bellmouth

bflex2010, bflex2010post

3-point bending of pipe

Manual modelling, roller contact, shear2helix, fricvisc material

bflex2010, bflex2010post

Transition to old bflex, pflex and boundary

flexcross, bend stiffener, itcode21

bflex2010, bflex2010post, pflex, boundary, bpost

Repeated Unit Cell model, thickwall

353flexcross, new friction model, RUC, thickwall

bflex2010, bflex2010post, dynpostb

Repeated Unit Cell model, thinwall

353flexcross, old friction model, RUC

bflex2010, bflex2010post

3-phase Power Cable

hshear355, hcont455

bflex2010

4-point bending of power cable

general geometry, hshear353, shear2helix, roller (cont164)

bflex2010, bflex2010post

Broken armour wires

hshear353, elhist

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