The possibility of using the 2024 aluminum alloy drill pipe that was processed superficially to reduce failure during dynamic loading

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Authors

Lallia Belkacem¹

1. University M’hamed Bougara, Boumerdes, Faculty of Hydrocarbons and Chemistry Independence Street, 35

Conference / event

8th International Conference on Engineering Failure Analysis, July 2018 (Budapest, Hungary)

Poster summary

A theoretical study was conducted to investigate the limit depth reached by aluminum alloy drill pipes combined with steel pipes for deep well drilling in the Algerian country. Therefore, the present poster is based on various parameters that have an impact on the fatigue behavior of these tubes, focusing particularly on the damage caused by the gravity of the dogleg in the crooked path in addition to their mechanical behavior, and determines the extent to which the aluminum drill pipe can drill without failures using well-engineering software modeling which provides the expected loads in the drilling and provides results more or less close to reality. This analysis indicates that the aluminum drill pipe has good fatigue resistance, despite the cumulative presence of axial and bending stress concentrations in the dogleg zones.

Keywords

Drilling, Deep wells, Drill pipes, 2024 aluminum alloy, Fatigue

Research areas

Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering

References

1. ] Abdel Salam M., Mahmood A., 2016. Handbook of Materials Failure Analysis with Case Studies from the Oil and Gas Industry, Applied thermal engineering journal, Elsevier, ISBN: 9780081001172.

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2023 Belkacem. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.