Casing and Casing String Design
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of the pipe from damage under normal handling and transportation. External
thread protectors shall cover the full length of the thread on the pipe and inter-
nal thread protectors shall cover the equivalent total pipe thread length of internal
thread. Thread protectors shall exclude water and dirt from the thread during
transportation and normal storage period. Normal storage period shall be
considered as approximately 1 year. The thread forms in protectors shall be such
that the product threads are not damaged by the protectors.
Material.
Protector material shall contain no compounds capable of causing
corrosion or promoting adherence of the protectors of the threads and shall
be suitable for service temperature (-50 to +150°F)
(-46
to
+66OC).
Pertormance Properties.
Results of years of field experience have revealed that
to reduce the risk of failure, the minimum yield strength should be used instead
of average yield strength to determine the performance properties of casing.
Values for collapse resistance, internal yield pressure, pipe body, and joint
strength for steel grades as in Table 4141 are given in Table 4-150. Table 4-150 is
directly taken from
API
Bulletin 5C2, 17th Edition, 1980. Formulas and pro-
cedures for calculating the values in Table 4-150 are given in Bulletin 5C3 [152]
and are as follows:
Collapse Pressure (Section
1
of
API 5C3)
Yield Strength Collapse Pressure Formula.
The yield strength collapse
pressure is not a true collapse pressure but rather the external pressure p,, that
generates minimum yield stress
Y,
on the inside wall of a tube as calculated by
(4-308)
The applicable D/t ratios for yield strength collapse are shown in Table 4-151.
Plastic Collapse Pressure Formula.
The minimum collapse pressure for the
plastic range of collapse is calculated by
(4-309)
The formula for minimum plastic collapse pressure is applicable for D/t values
as shown in Table 4-151. The factors
A,
B, and C are given in Table 4-152.
Transition Collapse Pressure Formula.
The minimum collapse pressure for
the plastic
to
elastic transition zone
P,
is
calculated by
(4-3 10)
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