To circumvent numerous costly experimental investigations of full scale pipeline burst tests, fracture resistance parameters are determined from small scale lab tests for a given material. Developed over the past several decades, fracture parameters such as the Charpy V-notch energy, drop weight tear test (DWTT) absorbed energy, and most recently vii
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