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Assessment of vintage girth welds and challenges to ILI tools.

Wang et al., 2013

Document ID
14581408991229768296
Author
Wang Y
Ma J
Kulkarni S
Publication year
Publication venue
Journal of Pipeline Engineering

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Assessment of vintage girth welds on the basis of fitness-for-service (FFS) principles is the best rational approach to develop integrity-management practice. Although general procedures for the FFS assessment of welds are well established, enhancement of these …
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