Diagnostics and Reliability of Pipeline Systems

Abstract

The motivation for writing book was to provide a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of integrity and safety of pipeline systems to the extent required for practical application. The book sums up ideas expressed in numerous articles penned indi- vidually and as a team by both authors, and although most of them went through double-review filters and were published in the proceedings of major international conferences and journals, they remain difficult to access. A distinctive feature of this book is its interdisciplinary approach to the solution of individual cases and of the whole imperative problem. The proposed solutions of fundamental problems have been designed, in addition to following the logic of a particular research discipline development, with specific requirements of the pipeline industry in mind. Another very important characteristic of this book is that the interdisciplinary problem discussed here has been studied as a sequence of interdependent problems from various fields of knowledge and engineering disciplines, and resolved using a task chain approach, when the solution output of the first problem is an input for the next problem, etc., until the output of the last problem produces the ultimate solution for the whole problem.