Modeling and simulating nonhomogeneous non-Gaussian corrosion fields on buried pipelines and its use in predicting burst capacities of corroded pipelines

The present study proposes an iterative algorithm to simulate nonhomogeneous non-Gaussian corrosion fields on buried oil and gas pipeline's external surfaces. The algorithm incorporates the concepts of the discrete orthonormal S-transform and the iterative amplitude adjusted Fourier transform algorithm. This results in the space-wavenumber power spectral density function and marginal distribution function of the simulated corrosion field...