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2019 (English)In: ESREL-2019 / [ed] Michael beer, Enrico Zio, 2019Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Underground pipelines are an essential part of the transportation infrastructure. The structural deterioration of pipelines crossing railways and their subsequent failures are critical for society and industry resulting in direct and indirect costs for all the related stakeholders. Pipeline failures are complex processes, which are affected by many factors, both static (e.g., pipe material, size, age, and soil type) and dynamic (e.g., traffic load, pressure zone changes, and environmental impacts). These failures have serious impacts on public due to safety, disruption of traffic, inconvenience to society, environmental impacts and shortage of resources. Therefore, continuous and accurate condition assessment is critical for the effective management and maintenance of pipeline networks within transportation infrastructure. The aim of this study is to identify failure modes and consequences related to the crossing of pipelines in railway corridors. Expert opinion have been collected through two set of questionnaires which have been distributed to the 291 municipalities in the whole Sweden. The failure analysis revealed that pipe deformation has higher impact followed by pipe rupture at cross-section with railway infrastructure. For underground pipeline under railway infrastructure, aging and external load gets higher ranks among different potential failure causes to the pipeline.
Keywords
Underground Pipelines, Transportation Infrastructure, Railway, Maintenance, FMEA
National Category
Reliability and Maintenance Water Engineering Geotechnical Engineering
Research subject
Structural Engineering; Traffic Engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-76471 (URN)10.3850/978-981-11-2724-3_0037-cd (DOI)978-981-11-2724-3 (ISBN)
Conference
ESREL 2019 | European Safety and Reliability Conference
Projects
PipeXrail
Funder
Vinnova, 2016-033113
Note
We gratefully acknowledge the funding provided by Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova, through the Strategic Innovation Programme InfraSweden2030. The funding was granted in competition within the Open Call “Condition assessment and maintenance of transport infrastructure – Grant No. 2016-033113”. In addition, the technical support and collaboration of, Arrsleff Rörteknik, Luleå Railway Research Center (JVTC) and the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) are greatly appreciated
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