The PRCI Technical Committees have carried multiple research projects related assessing the burst pressure of pipe and pipe components that contain defects. This report, therefore, presents a summary of past PRCI funded studies in this area of valve spacing and automation. Since not all studies sponsored by other industry groups (e.g., AGA, EPRG, etc.) or by individual pipeline companies are not included, this report does not represent a review of the topic in the broader industry-wide sense. Instead, it is designed to provide a guide to past work so that current TC members can identify and locate...
The PRCI Technical Committees have carried multiple research projects related assessing the burst pressure of pipe and pipe components that contain defects. This report, therefore, presents a summary of past PRCI funded studies in this area of valve spacing and automation. Since not all studies sponsored by other industry groups (e.g., AGA, EPRG, etc.) or by individual pipeline companies are not included, this report does not represent a review of the topic in the broader industry-wide sense. Instead, it is designed to provide a guide to past work so that current TC members can identify and locate project reports that might be of use in identifying previous PRCI research that includes burst pressure data and related topics.