Name: Kathryn Lisa Megna Gender: Female Email: Send Hometown: Arlington, Ma Major: Civil Engineering Concentration(s): Civil infrastructure School Name: Cornell University School Location: Ithaca, NY Graduation Year: 2009 When In China, Thing(s) Missed Most From USA: Cold Cut Sandwiches When In USA, Thing(s) Missed Most From China: Daily life with the other REU students and graduate students Mentor: Professor Bai Graduate Student: Rachel Research Abstract: In this work simple finite element static analysis is conducted on an ocean flexible pipe to provide meaningful mechanical behavior results to build upon in further local analysis studies. Separate evenly distributed internal and external pressures are applied to a local refined, simplified 5- layer model of an ocean flexible pipe in ANSYS. Varied helical strip angles and thickness values are taken into account. Axial and ring stress ranges are found in each layer. The local stress distribution and transmission mechanism between the layers is analyzed to investigate the mechanical response of the pipe. FEM modeling is a computationally intensive, time consuming approach in the local analysis of ocean flexible pipes. This limits its general application in design. The results are intended to help create a less computationally intensive model, which complex combined loading conditions can be applied to and interaction between layers and helical strips can be taken into account, allowing further detailed investigations into the structural behavior of ocean flexible pipes.