Stelios Kyriakides is currently the John Webb Jennings Chair in Engineering and Professor n Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics for the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Director of the Research Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures, and Materials at UT. Stelios has had over 35 years involvement with the offshore oil and gas exploration and production industry world-wide. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard and California Institute of Technology. He earned a B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) in Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Bristol, a MS and PhD, both in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. He is active in many journals including Elsevier's Applied Ocean Research and the International Journal of Solids and Structures. Liang-Hai Lee is currently a Principal Specialist with Genesis/Technip specializing in solid mechanics, computational mechanics, and design of buckle arrestors. Previously, he was a Post-doc fellow and Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of ASME, active in journals including Elsevier's Engineering Structures and International Journal of Solids and Structures. He earned a MS in Structural Engineering from Chung Hua University in Taiwan, and a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Texas in Austin.

• 1. Introduction: Buckle Propagation in Offshore Pipelines and its Arrests2 On the Propagation Pressure of Pipelines3. Propagation Pressure Under Tension4. Buckle Propagation in Confined Tubes and Liners5. Buckle Propagation in Pipe-in-Pipe Systems6. Dynamic Buckle Propagation7. Quasi-Static and Dynamic Buckle Arrest8. Integral Buckle Arrestors9. Dynamic Performance of Integral Buckle Arrestors10. Slip-On and Clamped Buckle Arrestors11. Internal Ring Buckle Arrestors12. Spiral Buckle Arrestors