...Mayur Pratap Singh; Dinesh Kumar Shukla; Rajneesh Kumar; Kanwer Singh Arora Purpose The key purpose of conducting this review is to identify the issues that affect the structural integrity of pipeline structures. Heat affected zone (HAZ) has been identified as the weak zone in pipeline welds which...

...Mourad Nahal; Rabia Khelif Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate the failure probability in an irregular area in pipeline (elbow) over its lifetime. The reliability analysis is performed by using of an enhanced first-order reliability method / second-order reliability method (FORM/SORM...

...Nikolaos Athanasopoulos; Evangelos Gavalas; Spyros Papaefthymiou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a finite element method (FEM) model that predicts the collapse pressure of the majority of the gas/petroleum pipelines worldwide. More specifically, it refers to pipelines with diameter...