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Marine Structures 40 (2015) 159e182 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Marine Structures journal homepage: /locate/ marstruc An investigation on flexible pipes birdcaging triggering * Marcos A. Rabelo , Celso P. Pesce, Caio C.P. Santos, Roberto Ramos Junior, Guilherme R. Franzini, Alfredo Gay Neto ~ LMO, Offshore Mechanics Laboratory, Escola Politecnica, University of Sao Paulo, Av. Prof. Mello Moraes 2231, S. Paulo, SP 05508-030, Brazil a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: An investigation on triggering mechanisms for the birdcaging Received 2 July 2014 failure mode of flexible pipes, used in offshore oil and gas pro- Received in revised form 15 October 2014 duction, is carried out. From previous experimental observations, a Accepted 27 October 2014 conjecture is made: the local axisymmetric instability of the Available online external plastic layer, caused by the high radial loading which is internally applied due to the helical armor wires tendency to Keywords: expand when the pipe is subjected to compression, would be this Flexible pipes Birdcaging triggering trigger. A simple instability onset criterion for the external plastic HDPE tubes layer, namely, t