stress-corrosion cracking (scc) tests were conducted in the near-neutral ph standard solution, ns4, and in an actual soil solution, using four-point bending at a high stress ratio and low frequency conditions very similar to those of operational pipelines. pitting incubation appeared first and then pitting initiated and grew in both solutions although there were many more pits on the specimen t...

Thanks to recent progress in satellite-based remote sensing technologies and object oriented image analysis, as well as to the availability of new very high-resolution sensors, it is now possible to design gas pipeline monitoring systems, as has been demonstrated by the co-funded European “PRESENSE Pipeline REmote SENsing for Safety and the Environment” project. In parallel, the European Space ...

This paper presents pipeline iteration, an approach that uses output from later stages of a pipeline to constrain earlier stages of the same pipeline. We demonstrate significant improvements in a state-of-the-art PCFG parsing pipeline using base-phrase constraints, derived either from later stages of the parsing pipeline or from a finitestate shallow parser. The best performance is achieved by ...

Risk assessment of oil pipeline is the core content in the pipeline integrity management. Through risk assessment of oil pipelines, we could know the comprehensive operating condition of the pipelines, identify the dangerous factors of the pipeline and find out the risk section of the pipeline, so as to work out the risk mitigation measures and provide a theoretical basis for integrity assessme...

This paper presents Diierential Multithreading (dMT) as an inexpensive way to achieve high through-put from a single-issue architecture. dMT switches among multiple instruction streams in response to pipeline stall conditions but saves in-ight instructions, thus squashing pipeline bubbles and ensuring maximal utilization of a single pipeline. dMT uses auxiliary pipeline registers to save the st...