System reliability of corroding pipelines |
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Authors: | Wenxing Zhou |
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Affiliation: | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9 |
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Abstract: | A methodology is presented in this paper to evaluate the time-dependent system reliability of a pipeline segment that contains multiple active corrosion defects and is subjected to stochastic internal pressure loading. The pipeline segment is modeled as a series system with three distinctive failure modes due to corrosion, namely small leak, large leak and rupture. The internal pressure is characterized as a simple discrete stochastic process that consists of a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables each acting over a period of one year. The magnitude of a given sequence follows the annual maximum pressure distribution. The methodology is illustrated through a hypothetical example. Furthermore, the impact of the spatial variability of the pressure loading and pipe resistances associated with different defects on the system reliability is investigated. The analysis results suggest that the spatial variability of pipe properties has a negligible impact on the system reliability. On the other hand, the spatial variability of the internal pressure, initial defect sizes and defect growth rates can have a significant impact on the system reliability. |
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Keywords: | Pipeline Metal-loss corrosion System reliability Failure modes Stochastic Spatial variability |
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