Approach to evaluation of time to the critical degradation of ship pipelines

In the article an approach to the problem of estimating time to the critical degradation of ship pipelines is considered. Such an assessment would consist of six stages. The fundamental idea is to include to the estimation of time to failure of pipelines such elements like: materials that the pipelines are made, destructive physical phenomena taking place in them and applied means of protection. The result of that evaluation should be mean time to critical degradation of pipeline. The mean time should be given with the measure of the spread like the standard deviation. Another possibility is to express the time to failure in the form of a fuzzy number. This would indicate uncertainty of the estimation.