Reliability based planning of inspection and maintenance of pipeline integrity
- Center for Engineering Research Inc., Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)
This report describes the results of a research project on reliability-based optimization of pipeline integrity maintenance activities. The objective of the project was to develop models to quantify the effect of different maintenance activities on the structural reliability of pipelines, and to demonstrated how the results of these models can be used in a reliability-based framework to develop optimal integrity maintenance plans. The approaches developed can be used to prioritize different pipeline segments for maintenance and to select the optimal combination of integrity maintenance actions for high priority segments. The maintenance decisions considered for a given pipeline segment include the maintenance method, the time interval between maintenance events and the repair criteria for damage detected by inspection.
- Research Organization:
- American Gas Association, Inc., Arlington, VA (United States). Pipeline Research Committee
- Sponsoring Organization:
- American Gas Association, Inc., Arlington, VA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 576174
- Report Number(s):
- AGA--98003126; PR--244-9519
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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