A model for predicting failure of oil pipelines

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 375-387

  Senouci, Ahmed ^a   Elabbasy, Mohamed ^b   Elwakil, Emad ^c   Abdrabou, Bassem ^b   Zayed, Tarek ^b  

^a QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial neural networks; failure type prediction; oil pipelines; regression

Indexed keywords

CORROSION FAILURES; ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE; FAILURE TYPES; OIL PIPELINES; OIL-AND-GAS PIPELINES; PIPELINE ACCIDENTS; PIPELINE OPERATOR; REGRESSION;

CORROSION; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PETROLEUM PIPELINES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84892483125     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2012.756918     Document Type: Article

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