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Hazard and Protection Concepts for Deepwater Pipelines: The Environmental Factors

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Pipeline stability in critical areas of unstable and/or rapidly evolving morphology is a problem of paramount importance not to be overlooked in every pipeline project. The paper deals with the merging aspects of environmental sciences and technical engineering for pipeline stability.

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Melegari, J.E., Bressan, G. (1990). Hazard and Protection Concepts for Deepwater Pipelines: The Environmental Factors. In: Ellinas, C.P. (eds) Advances in Subsea Pipeline Engineering and Technology. Advances in Underwater Technology, Ocean Science and Offshore Engineering, vol 24. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0617-4_15

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