Safety, Reliability and Risks Associated with Water, Oil and Gas Pipelines

Preface.- General Approaches of Pipeline Defect Assessment; G. Pluvinage.- Application of Sintap to the Failure Assessment of a Gas Pipes; N. Gublejak.- Interaction between Material Properties, Inspection Accuracy and Defect Acceptance Levels in Strain Based Pipeline Design; R. Denys.- Failure of Cylindrical Shells: Numerical and Experimental Study; A. Elhakimi et al.- Leak Detection by Using the Impedance Method; E.H. Taieb.- Corrosion Fatigue Cracking and Failure Risk Assessment of Pipelines; I. Dmytrakh.- Initiation of Stress Corrosion Cracking and Hydrogen Induced Crackin in Oil and Gas Line-Pipe Steels; M.T. Shehata et al.- Failure Analysis of Polyethylene Gas Pipes; K. Chaoui et al.- Stable and Unstable Crack Growth in Pipes; V.T. Sapunov.- Some Insights into the Fatigue Crack Propagation in Tubes under Internal Pressure - Proposition of Predicting Models; T. Boukharouba et al.- Hydrogen Effect on Fatigue Life of a Pipe Steel; J.. Capelle et al.- The Experience on Safety, Reliability and Risk Assessment of Some Ukrainian, Russian and Latvian Transite Pipe Lines; A. Krasowsky.- Reliability Assessment of Pipelines Using Phimeca Software; A. Amirat et al.- On a New Software Project for Welding Simulations of Pipes (Fabrications, Repairs...) and for the Evaluation of Fatigue Behavior of Pipes in Service; K. Dang-Van, F. Roger.- Welded Penstock, Produced of High Strength Steel and Application of Fracture Mechanics Parameters to Structural Integrity Assessment; S. Sedmak, A. Sedmak.- The Thermal and Mechanical Behavior of a Joint Pipe System Calculated by Finite Element Method; H-J. Shi et al.- Degradation of the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Pipeline Material Depending on Exploitation Term; S. Vodenicharov.- Deformation Characteristics of Carbon Steels under High Temperatures; R. Barseghyan, A. Barseghyan.- Fracture Mechanics Analysis of Repairing a Cracked Pressure Pipe with a Composite Sleeve; P. Jodin.- Review of Gas Transmission PipelineRepair Methods;