Societal Risk Criteria And Pipelines

摘要

The selection of analysis method and risk criteria depends on the objective of the risk evaluation. Options for pipeline reviews are summarized in Table 1. If a length-scaled F-N analysis is chosen, care must be taken not to miss identifying high risk sections by summing the F over too long a length of pipeline. To avoid this, the F-N curves of individual segments can be plotted and compared to F-N criteria scaled to the segment length.