...Chunsheng Miao; Jianping Zhao Based on the statistical analysis from a great deal of failure cases, generally, the failure causes of buried pipeline can be classified into four factors, namely, third-party damage, erosion–corrosion damage, design and construction error, and incorrect operation...

... utilities use a combination of EPRI guidance, software, and aggressive inspection programs to deal with FAC. However, current technology does not detail guidance for erosive forms of attack including, cavitation erosion, flashing erosion, droplet impingement, and solid particle erosion. These forms...

... and downtime, it is critical to predict erosional damage that may occur in the fluid handling process equipment and piping. Several investigators attempted to develop empirical, semiempirical, mechanistic models to predict the severity of erosion behavior in both single-phase and multiphase flows. Although...

...Clay D. Rodery In many in-service issues involving pressure equipment, it is often the case that the thickness of a cylinder reveals significant variations in thickness around its cross section. This variation could represent loss of thickness due to corrosion or erosion, or could involve additions...

...Quamrul H. Mazumder Solid particle erosion of metal surfaces is a major problem in several fluid handling industries due to unpredicted equipment failure and production loss. The prediction of erosion is difficult even in a single-phase flow. The complexity of the problem increases significantly...

...M. Perl, Mem. ASME, Professor and Dean, Faculty of Engineering Sciences,; C. Levy, Mem. ASME, Professor,; Q. Ma Erosion geometry effects on the mode I stress intensity factor (SIF) for a crack emanating from an erosion’s deepest point in a multiply eroded, autofrettaged, pressurized, thick-walled...