... into the design and fatigue performance of composite umbilicals, carned out under Work Package 2 of the "Umbilical - The Future" joint industry funded project A computer model of an electro- hydraulical, symrnetncal umbilical subjected to vanous axial loads and bent around sheaves of different diameters has been...

... and to gather physical data necessary for the development of an analpcal theory for calculabng internal stresses in an umbilical being bent over a sheave INTRODUCTION An analytical theory has been developed to descnbe the behaviour of a syrnmetncal electro-hydraulic umbilical and its internal electncal...