Strong exploration of a cast iron pipe failure model

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 885-896

  Moglia, M ^a   Davis, P ^a   Burn, S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cast iron pipe failures; Corrosion rates; Limit state model; Monte Carlo simulation; Probabilistic model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION RATE; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

LIMIT-STATE MODEL; PIPE FAILURE PROCESS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC LOADS;

CAST IRON PIPE;

EID: 39749153072     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.03.033     Document Type: Article

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