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of  the pipe from damage under normal handling and transportation.  External 
thread  protectors shall cover the full length of  the thread on the pipe and inter- 
nal thread protectors shall cover the equivalent total pipe thread length of  internal 
thread.  Thread protectors  shall exclude water and dirt from the thread  during 
transportation and normal  storage  period.  Normal  storage  period  shall be 
considered as approximately 1 year.  The thread forms in protectors shall be such 
that the product  threads are not damaged  by  the protectors. 
Material. 
Protector  material  shall  contain  no  compounds capable  of  causing 
corrosion  or promoting  adherence  of  the protectors  of  the  threads  and shall 
be suitable  for service temperature (-50  to +150°F) 
(-46 
to 
+66OC). 
Pertormance Properties. 
Results of years of field experience have revealed that 
to reduce the risk of failure, the minimum yield strength should be used instead 
of  average yield strength  to determine the performance  properties  of  casing. 
Values for collapse  resistance,  internal yield  pressure,  pipe  body,  and joint 
strength for steel grades as in Table 4141 are given in Table 4-150. Table 4-150 is 
directly  taken  from 
API 
Bulletin  5C2,  17th Edition,  1980. Formulas  and  pro- 
cedures for calculating the values in Table 4-150 are given in Bulletin 5C3 [152] 
and are as follows: 
Collapse Pressure (Section 
1 
of 
API 5C3) 
Yield  Strength  Collapse  Pressure Formula. 
The yield  strength collapse 
pressure is not a true collapse pressure but rather the external pressure p,,  that 
generates minimum yield stress 
Y, 
on the inside wall  of a tube as calculated by 
(4-308) 
The applicable D/t  ratios for yield  strength collapse are shown in Table 4-151. 
Plastic Collapse Pressure Formula. 
The minimum  collapse pressure  for the 
plastic range of collapse is  calculated  by 
(4-309) 
The formula for minimum plastic collapse pressure is applicable for D/t  values 
as shown in Table 4-151. The factors 
A, 
B,  and C are given  in Table 4-152. 
Transition Collapse Pressure Formula. 
The minimum  collapse  pressure  for 
the plastic 
to 
elastic  transition  zone 
P, 
is 
calculated by 
(4-3 10) 
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