About 100 miles east of the site where the Enbridge Inc. pipeline recently ruptured, company officials in December 2009 found an anomaly in the same line that led them to reduce the pressure there by ...

Pipeline defect analysis and assessment remains a critical area of research, given its direct impact on the safety and reliability of energy transportation infrastructures. Mechanical defects such as ...

Pipeline reliability analysis requires selection of a defect growth model that will accurately predict both the time evolution of corrosion defects and the probability of these defects' failure. The ...

Using X-ray beams and machine learning for detecting structural defects, such as pore formation, can help prevent failure of metal 3D-printed parts. Systematic computer-based material design uses ...

First-order reliability methods (FORM) of structural reliability assessment allowed optimization of the thicknesses of fiberglass reinforced polyester (FRP) resin necessary for pipeline repair using a ...

Manufacturing defects, blamed for a March 29 pipeline rupture in Mayflower, also accounted for a total of 12 seam failures in the same crude-oil pipeline during a series of pressure tests Exxon Mobil ...