ABSTRACT Reliability is an important engineering requirement for consistently delivering acceptable product performance through time. As time progresses, the product may fail due to time-dependent ...

In the last two decades, results obtained from structural reliability analysis (SRA) have increasingly led to formation of strategies for future safe operation of corroding oil and gas pipelines. 1-8 ...

As modern structures require more critical and complex designs, the need for accurate approaches to assess uncertainties in loads, geometry, material properties, manufacturing processes and ...

Pipeline failure probabilities calculated by the Monte Carlo method are better than those given by the first-order reliability method (FORM) but have a longer calculation time. Pipeline failure ...