Best practice for the assessment of defects in pipelines - Corrosion

Engineering Failure Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1245-1265

  Cosham, A ^a   Hopkins, P ^a   Macdonald, K A ^b  

^a Penspen Integrity ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Defect assessment; Pipeline

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; DEFECTS; DEGRADATION; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CYCLIC STRENGTH; DEFECT ASSESSMENT; STATIC STRENGTH;

PIPELINES;

CORROSION; DEFECTS; DEGRADATION; PIPELINES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

EID: 34247597322     PISSN: 13506307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2006.11.035     Document Type: Article

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