Condition assessment to estimate failure rates in buried metallic pipelines

Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 179-191

  De Silva, D ^a   Moglia, M ^a   Davis, P ^a   Burn, S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Condition assessment; Extrapolation; Limited data; Probabilistic failure; Reliability analysis; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONDITION ASSESSMENT; LIMITED DATA; PROBABILISTIC FAILURE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

WATER PIPING SYSTEMS;

EXTRAPOLATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER PIPING SYSTEMS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CORROSION; PIPELINE; SOIL TYPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744476683     PISSN: 00037214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/aqua.2006.0004     Document Type: Review

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