Research Areas

Offshore oil engineering

Deep water underwater engineering

Fracture and fatigue theory of materials

Random vibration and engineering vibration reduction

Engineering mechanics of sea ice

Research work in the fields of risk and reliability

Research Group Introduction

Duan Menglan is currently engaged in offshore oil engineering, deep water underwater engineering, fatigue fracture and damage theory of structures and materials, random vibration and engineering vibration reduction, sea ice engineering mechanics, risk and reliability, etc

Publications

[1] Feng Guan, Menglan Duan, Weiguo Ma, Zhihong Zhou, Xianzhong Yi, An experimental study of mechanical behavior of coiled tubing in pipelines, Applied Ocean Research, 44 (2014) 13-Xianwei Hu, Canfeng Zhou, Menglan Duan and Chen An, Reliability analysis of marine risers with narrow and long corrosion defects under combined loads, Petroleum Science, March 2014, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp 139-146

[2] Xiaguang Zeng, Menglan Duan and Xiaoyu Che, Critical upheaval buckling forces of imperfect pipelines, Applied Ocean Research, Volume 45, March 2014, Pages 33-39

[3] Chen An, Menglan Duan, Romildo D. Toledo Filho, Segen F. Estefen, Collapse of sandwich pipes with PVA fiber reinforced cementitious composites core under external pressure, Ocean Engineering, 01/2014, 82: 1-13

[4] Xiaguang Zeng, Menglan Duan, Mode localization in lateral buckling of partially embedded submarine pipelines, International Journal of Solids and structures (Impact Factor: 1.87), 2014, 51(10):1991-1999

[5] Yingying Wang, Menglan Duan, Junkai Feng, Modeling for the Optimization of Layout Scenarios of Cluster Manifolds with Pipeline End Manifolds, Applied Ocean Research, Volume 46, 2014, 94-103

[6] Jun Zhao, Menglan Duan and Aixia Zhang, Bearing Capacity of Square Spudcan of Jack-up Rig based on a Three-Dimensional Failure Mode, Ships and Offshore Structures, 2014, 9(2): 149-160

[7] Lei Guo, Menglan Duan, Yi Wang, Fangfang Yu, Experimental investigation on dynamic model testing of a deep-water Riser Support by truncated hybrid method, Ships and Offshore Structures, 2014, 9(3): 344-353

[8] Guangming Fu, Marcelo I. Lourenco, Menglan Duan, Segen F. Estefen, Effect of boundary conditions on residual stress and distortion in T-joint welds, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Volume 102, November 2014, Pages 121-135

[9] Tong He, Menglan Duan and Chen An, Prediction of the collapse pressure for thick-walled pipes under external pressure, Applied Ocean Research, volume 47, 2014, pp. 199 – 203