Likelihood, causes, and consequences of focused leakage and rupture of U.S. natural gas transmission pipelines

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 177-187

  Wang, Hui ^a   Duncan, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure causes; Failure consequence; Failure rate; Natural gas pipelines; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; NATURAL GAS PIPELINES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FAILURE RATE; NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION PIPELINE; PIPELINE DIAMETERS; PIPELINE FAILURES; PIPELINE SEGMENTS; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; SAFETY OF PIPELINES; TRANSMISSION PIPELINES;

NATURAL GAS TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84903162883     PISSN: 09504230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2014.05.009     Document Type: Article

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