Preventive Replacement Policies with Aging Failure and Third-part Damage

Xufeng Zhao, Khalifa N. Al-Khalifa, Abdel Magid Hamouda

2016

Abstract

In general, corrosions, degrading the mechanical strength of pipelines gradually with its age in a stochastic way, is the predominant cause of pipeline leaks. In addition, the third-part damage is the leading cause of pipeline ruptures, which occurs randomly in a statistical sense. Naturally, corrective replacement (CR) is done immediately when the pipeline is subjected to a random failure. To reduce the failure probabilities, preventive replacement (PR) policies are scheduled to meet the failure due to aging and the third-part damage. We model three PR policies, using the renewal theory in reliability, and obtain their optimal solutions analytically to minimize respective replacement cost rates. Finally, numerical examples are given to compare these policies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zhao X., Al-Khalifa K. and Hamouda A. (2016). Preventive Replacement Policies with Aging Failure and Third-part Damage . In Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES, ISBN 978-989-758-171-7, pages 373-379. DOI: 10.5220/0005737003730379

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icores16,
author={Xufeng Zhao and Khalifa N. Al-Khalifa and Abdel Magid Hamouda},
title={Preventive Replacement Policies with Aging Failure and Third-part Damage},
booktitle={Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,},
year={2016},
pages={373-379},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005737003730379},
isbn={978-989-758-171-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of 5th the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: ICORES,
TI - Preventive Replacement Policies with Aging Failure and Third-part Damage
SN - 978-989-758-171-7
AU - Zhao X.
AU - Al-Khalifa K.
AU - Hamouda A.
PY - 2016
SP - 373
EP - 379
DO - 10.5220/0005737003730379