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Abstract

Corrosion is one of the main causes of failures in onshore or offshore transmission pipelines (both gas and hazardous liquids). The reduction in the number of corrosion incidents in pipelines is strongly desirable regarding to safety and financial reasons. Owners of energy companies, industry trade organizations, and the scientific community have worked to increase pipeline safety and reduce incidents and related costs for many years. In fact, they have made significant improvements to corrosion detection, assessment, and mitigation technology. However, all the current approaches are not sufficient completely. On the other hand there are valuable results in the other engineering fields which have employed structural health monitoring technique in their applications. This paper provides a critical review about the pipeline corrosion monitoring techniques. Moreover, a brief description of Structural Health Monitoring method is discussed for its flexibility and viability for corrosion monitoring in pipeline.