Target reliability levels for design and assessment of onshore natural gas pipelines

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Nessim, Maher ^a   Zhou, Wenxing ^a   Zhou, Joe ^b   Rothwell, Brian ^c  

^a C FER Technologies   (Canada)

^b TRANSCANADA PIPELINES LIMITED   (Canada)

^c Brian Rothwell Consulting Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT CODES; INDIVIDUAL RISKS; PIPELINE DESIGN; RISK AVERSION FUNCTION; RISK LEVELS; SAFETY LEVEL; SOCIETAL RISKS; TARGET RELIABILITY;

DESIGN; GAS PIPELINES; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS PIPELINES; PIPELINES; RELIABILITY;

TARGETS;

EID: 77955192829     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: 15288978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3110017     Document Type: Article

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