Integrated estimation of pipeline failure probability

There are research works devoted for assessment of piping system reliability based on statistical data (Suna et al, 2009; Gerbec, 2010). Other studies investigate piping degradation mechanisms (Filippov et al, 2006; Maesa et al, 2008) or present structural integrity analysis, which is performed using analytical formulas (Amirat et al, 2007; Davis et al, 2007) or finite element method (Chang et al, 2007).