Degradation Assessment and Failure Prevention of Pipeline Systems

Chapter 1: Non-Destructive Mechanical Testing of Pipelines.- Chapter 2: In-Service Degradation of Pipeline Steels.- Chapter 3: Non-Destructive Electrochemical Evaluation of Pipeline Degradation.- Chapter 4: Structural and Fractographic Features of Gas Pipeline Steel Degradation.- Chapter 5: Determination of the Residual Lifetime of Gas Pipeline with Surface Crack under Internal Pressure and Soil Corrosion.- Chapter 6: A Tentative Summary of Corrosion Issues in Pipelines Transporting Hydrocarbons.- Chapter 7: Risk-Based Inspection and Integrity Management of Pipeline Systems.- Chapter 8: A Model of a System for Gas Transmission Pipeline Integrity Monitoring.- Chapter 9: The Verne System for Underwater Test of Pipeline Integrity.- Chapter 10: Detection and Assessment of Defects in Gas Pipelines.- Chapter 11: Hydrogen Embrittlement and Microdamage of 316L Steel Affecting Structural Integrity, Durability and Safety of Pipelines.- Chapter 12: Effect of Environmental Composition on Fatigue Crack Growth and Hydrogen Permeation in Carbon Pipeline Steel.- Chapter 13: Development of Improved Materials for the Production of Forged Integral Buckle Arrestors.- Chapter 14: Assessment of Operational Degradation of Pipeline Steel Based on True Stress-Strain Diagrams.- Chapter 15: Effect of Impact-Oscillatory Loading on the Variation of Mechanical Properties and Crack Resistance of Pipe Steel.- Chapter 16: Prediction of Residual Service Life of Oil Pipeline under Non-Stationary Oil Flow Taking into Account Steel Degradation.- Chapter 17: Application of the Magnetoacoustic Emission Method for Estimation of Pipelines Material State.- Chapter 18: Corrosion-Mechanical Failure of Pipe Steels in Hydrogen Sulfide Environments.- Chapter 19: Determination of Preconditions Leading to Critical Stresses in Pipeline during Lowering.