Optimal design of onshore natural gas pipelines

Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Zhou, Wenxing ^a   Nessim, Maher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b C FER Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

failure consequences; failure mode; life cycle cost; onshore gas pipeline; optimal design; risk attitude

Indexed keywords

FAILURE CONSEQUENCES; LIFE-CYCLE COST; ONSHORE GAS PIPELINE; OPTIMAL DESIGN; RISK ATTITUDE;

CORROSION; COSTS; GAS PIPELINES; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL GAS; NATURAL GAS PIPELINES; NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PIPELINES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISKS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

DESIGN;

EID: 79954452047     PISSN: 00949930     EISSN: 15288978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002496     Document Type: Article

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