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Title: Limit states and reliability-based pipeline design. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:576103

This report provides the results of a study to develop limit states design (LSD) procedures for pipelines. Limit states design, also known as load and resistance factor design (LRFD), provides a unified approach to dealing with all relevant failure modes combinations of concern. It explicitly accounts for the uncertainties that naturally occur in the determination of the loads which act on a pipeline and in the resistance of the pipe to failure. The load and resistance factors used are based on reliability considerations; however, the designer is not faced with carrying out probabilistic calculations. This work is done during development and periodic updating of the LSD document. This report provides background information concerning limits states and reliability-based design (Section 2), gives the limit states design procedures that were developed (Section 3) and provides results of the reliability analyses that were undertaken in order to partially calibrate the LSD method (Section 4). An appendix contains LSD design examples in order to demonstrate use of the method. Section 3, Limit States Design has been written in the format of a recommended practice. It has been structured so that, in future, it can easily be converted to a limit states design code format. Throughout the report, figures and tables are given at the end of each section, with the exception of Section 3, where to facilitate understanding of the LSD method, they have been included with the text.

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:
576103
Report Number(s):
AGA-98002884; PR-244-9517; TRN: 98:001470
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jun 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English