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RELIABILITY-BASED MANAGEMENT OF BURIED PIPELINES CONSIDERING EXTERNAL CORROSION DEFECTS

Miran, Seyedeh Azadeh
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1467217785

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2016, Master of Science in Engineering, University of Akron, Engineering.
Corrosion is one of the main deteriorating mechanisms that degrade the energy pipeline integrity, due to transferring corrosive fluid or gas and interacting with corrosive environment. Corrosion defects are usually detected by periodical inspections using in-line inspection (ILI) methods. In order to ensure pipeline safety, this study develops a cost-effective maintenance strategy that consists of three aspects: corrosion growth model development using ILI data, time-dependent performance evaluation, and optimal inspection interval determination. In particular, the proposed study is applied to a cathodic protected buried steel pipeline located in Mexico. First, time-dependent power-law formulation is adopted to probabilistically characterize growth of the maximum depth and length of the external corrosion defects. Dependency between defect depth and length are considered in the model development and generation of the corrosion defects over time is characterized by the homogenous Poisson process. The growth models unknown parameters are evaluated based on the ILI data through the Bayesian updating method with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation technique. The proposed corrosion growth models can be used when either matched or non-matched defects are available, and have ability to consider newly generated defects since last inspection. Results of this part of study show that both depth and length growth models can predict damage quantities reasonably well and a strong correlation between defect depth and length is found. Next, time-dependent system failure probabilities are evaluated using developed corrosion growth models considering prevailing uncertainties where three failure modes, namely small leak, large leak and rupture are considered. Performance of the pipeline is evaluated through failure probability per km (or called a sub-system) where each sub-system is considered as a series system of detected and newly generated defects within that sub-system. Sensitivity analysis is also performed to determine to which incorporated parameter(s) in the growth models reliability of the studied pipeline is most sensitive. The reliability analysis results suggest that newly generated defects should be considered in calculating failure probability, especially for prediction of long-term performance of the pipeline and also, impact of the statistical uncertainty in the model parameters is significant that should be considered in the reliability analysis. Finally, with the evaluated time-dependent failure probabilities, a life cycle-cost analysis is conducted to determine optimal inspection interval of studied pipeline. The expected total life-cycle costs consists construction cost and expected costs of inspections, repair, and failure. The repair is conducted when failure probability from any described failure mode exceeds pre-defined probability threshold after each inspection. Moreover, this study also investigates impact of repair threshold values and unit costs of inspection and failure on the expected total life-cycle cost and optimal inspection interval through a parametric study. The analysis suggests that a smaller inspection interval leads to higher inspection costs, but can lower failure cost and also repair cost is less significant compared to inspection and failure costs.
Qindan Huang, Dr (Advisor)
Qindan Huang, Dr (Committee Chair)
Ping Yi, Dr (Committee Member)
Shengyong Wang, Dr (Committee Member)
89 p.
Civil Engineering; Engineering; Industrial Engineering
Corrosion; Pipeline; Reliability analysis; Failure mode; Reliability-based repair criteria; Optimal inspection interval; Life-cycle cost

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  • Miran, S. A. (2016). RELIABILITY-BASED MANAGEMENT OF BURIED PIPELINES CONSIDERING EXTERNAL CORROSION DEFECTS [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1467217785

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Miran, Seyedeh Azadeh. RELIABILITY-BASED MANAGEMENT OF BURIED PIPELINES CONSIDERING EXTERNAL CORROSION DEFECTS . 2016. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1467217785.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Miran, Seyedeh Azadeh. "RELIABILITY-BASED MANAGEMENT OF BURIED PIPELINES CONSIDERING EXTERNAL CORROSION DEFECTS ." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1467217785

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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