This paper presents an updated review of the external corrosion and failure mechanisms of
buried natural gas and oil pipelines. Various forms of external corrosion and failure …

Sustainable energy supply defined as uninterrupted, reliable, efficient, economic and
environmentally friendly electricity generation is the main goal of power plants. Carrying out …

Numerous of maintenance policies were developed due to the change in the manufacturing
environment and the growing of technologies in the past few decades. Due to fluctuation …

The increasing competition among industries has leveraged the emergence of various tools
and methods for maintenance decision-making support. This paper identifies in literature the …

Purpose Maintenance strategy selection (MSS) is considered as a complex multiple-criteria
decision-making (MCDM) problem. The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive …

Despite being considered the safest means to transport oil and gas, pipelines are
susceptible to degradation. Pipeline integrity management (PIM) is implemented to lower the …

Risk-based inspection (RBI) screening assessment is used to identify equipment that makes
a significant contribution to the system's total risk of failure (RoF), so that the RBI detailed …

Decision-making support (DMS) methods are widely used for technical, economic, social
and environmental assessments within different energy sectors, including upstream oil and …

This paper intends to contribute with a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework to
support risk evaluation for maintenance activities carried out on critical systems in industry …

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-----The significance of decision making from the maintenance perspective has long been …