Abstract: The acceptance criteria used in reliability based design and assessment are defined as a set of reliability targets (where reliability is defined as 1.0 minus the probability of failure). Because ...

Abstract: Onshore pipelines have traditionally been designed with a deterministic stress-based methodology. The changing operating environment has, however, imposed many challenges to the pipeline industry, ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a set of reliability targets that can be used in the design and assessment of onshore natural gas pipelines. The targets were developed as part of a PRCI-sponsored project ...