Breakdown of causes of pipe leaks
Weighting leak frequencies in industrial risk analyses
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Breakdown of causes of pipe leaks
Weighting leak frequencies in industrial risk analyses

Author : Olivier IDDIR

Publication date: January 10, 2011 | Lire en français

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4. Breakdown of causes of pipe leaks

4.1 Main causes of leakage

It is not uncommon in risk analysis to find so-called "generic" cause trees that identify the initiating events that, alone or in combination, are likely to lead to a pipeline leak, without specifying the size of the breach. By way of example, a generic tree from is shown in figure

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