Abstract Pipeline structural analysis is a well-developed topic in engineering and research practice. Since water, oil or gas pipeline systems are key part of modern development, therefore, it important to ensure an appropriate behavior under seismic action. In this paper, the response buried pipelines numerically simulated using three-dimensional (3D) parametric model soil-pipeline interaction...

The joint general model of reliability and availability of complex technical systems in variable operation conditions linking a semi-markov modeling of the system operation processes with a multi-state approach to system reliability and availability analysis and linear programming considered in the paper Part 1 are applied in maritime industry to reliability, risk and availability optimization ...

Bearing in mind the considerable distances between natural gas fields and consumers’ appliances, transport by gas pipelines remains the most competitive means. These gas pipelines which are generally made of steel pipes may contain however several types of defects of various origins and which are susceptible to initiate cracks which may grow under some circumstances to such extent as to lead to...