Buckling detection in deep water

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Is not buckle detector used for Reeling and/or J-Lay pipelaying methods?

For atedionyahoo. Do you mean the standard buckle detector (like a gauge plate)? I know that for deep water application it's not a standard to use it because the risk of rupture of buckle detector itself.

Can't use a conventional buckle detector with reeled pipe - the pipe is one continuous length and so unless you want to insert ?km of cable inside the reeled pipr it won't work. Flipside is reeled pipe will have a low D/t ratio (typical rule of thumb D/t < 20) and is thus lees prone to buckling to begin with.

Conventional buckle detectors can be used in J-lay, no more of a PITA that when used with S-lay.