Effects of correlation between the adjacent components on time dependent failure probability of corroded pipelines

This study aims to investigate the effects of correlation of random variables between the adjacent components on time variant system reliability of corroded pipelines. The system reliability analysis is conducted using a combination of Latin Hypercube Sampling and Cholesky decomposition methods for four different failure modes (Composite (C), Corrosion Perforation (CP), Local Burst (LB) and Rupture (R)). Since the multivariate target correlation...