A data processing pipeline for serial femtosecond crystallography at SACLA was developed, based on Cheetah [Barty et al. (2014). J. Appl. Cryst.47, 1118-1131] and CrystFEL [White et al. (2016). J. Appl. Cryst.49, 680-689]. The original programs were adapted for data acquisition through the SACLA API, thread and inter-node parallelization, and efficient image handling. The pipeline consists of t...

Assessment of a corroded pipe is crucial to determine when it must be repaired or replaced. However, the conventional corrosion assessment codes for failure pressure predictions pipes with circumferentially aligned interacting defects are conservative (underestimations more than 40%), resulting in premature repair replacements pipelines. Alternatively, numerical approaches may used, but they ti...

Although the use and promotion of renewable energies have increased in recent years, it is evident that fossil fuels such as oil gas continues to be great importance. Likewise, pipelines are widely recognized most reliable profitable means transportation for liquid gaseous hydrocarbons. Nevertheless, due nature hydrocarbons, continually exposed deterioration by corrosion mechanical damage. In t...

Microbiologically influenced corrosion is a complex type of environmentally assisted corrosion. Though poorly understood and challenging to ameliorate, it is increasingly appreciated that MIC accelerates failure of metal alloys, including steel pipeline. Historically, this type of material degradation process has been treated from either an electrochemical materials perspective or a microbiolog...

External corrosion was identified as one of the main causes of pipeline failures worldwide. A solution that addresses the issue of detecting and quantifying corrosivity of environment for application to existing exposed pipelines has been developed. It consists of a sensing array made of an assembly of thin strips of pipeline steel and a circuit that provides a visual sensor reading to the oper...