As part of the stress-carrying capacity concept underlying Resistance estimations, the use of ‘effective wall thickness’ is introduced here as a modeling convenience. Resistance Estimation…
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As part of the stress-carrying capacity concept underlying Resistance estimations, the use of ‘effective wall thickness’ is introduced here as a modeling convenience. Resistance Estimation…
The Puzzle Today, we have an unprecedented amount of data available to solve this pipeline risk puzzle. Let’s say we want to understand internal corrosion…
Incident Investigation Incident investigation is both a useful input into a risk assessment and a consumer of risk assessment results. In the former, learnings from…
See also Data Integration, GIS, Profiles As noted in Mechanics of Risk Assessment, pipelines are structures that are collections of components. Performing a risk assessment…
Pipeline Risk Assessment—Controlling the Bias In other parts of this site, we introduced the concept of pipeline risk assessment Essential Elements. This is a list…
When risk estimates are expressed as single values–rather than as probability distributions–the level of conservatism used in producing those estimates must be declared. This is…
… ingredients in risk assessments Let’s first differentiate between risk assessments and risk analyses. While there are many definitions out there for ‘risk assessment’, let’s…
Background If needed, here are some links for background info or other places to start. Otherwise, let’s jump right in Beginning Risk Assessment/Management Excerpts taken…
As the first element of the overall PoF measurement, the estimate of ‘exposure’ (or ‘attack’) is anything that can damage a very weak pipeline component. This…