Pipeline Risk Assessment and Risk-Informed Pipeline Maintenance
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Mechanical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2025) | Viewed by 4280
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Corrosion is a major threat to the safety of oil and gas transmission pipelines. Risk-based fitness-for-service assessments play an increasingly active role in developing cost-effective life cycle inspection and repair strategies for highly pressurized pipelines containing corrosion defects. Despite the notable research development in this perspective in recent years, there is still a significant gap between academic research and industrial application for both piggable and unpiggable pipelines in terms of probabilistic corrosion growth prediction, efficient reliability assessment, inspection and repair decision making under uncertainty, and pipeline risk acceptance. To better support risk-based pipeline integrity management, this Special Issue seeks to collect technical papers on the recent advances in and future directions of practical pipeline corrosion risk management methods. The Special Issue is dedicated, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Pipeline corrosion growth prediction;
- Data-driven pipeline risk;
- Pipeline structural reliability;
- Optimal inline inspection interval;
- Risk-based pipeline maintenance prioritization.
Dr. Changqing Gong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- transmission pipelines
- distribution pipelines
- pipeline corrosion assessment
- pipeline reliability
- risk-based pipeline maintenance
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