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Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality ((TSRQ,volume 30))

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Modern society sustainability technologies focusing on ensuring modern competitive production are supported by systems consisting of software, communications, machines, instruments, tools, and structures which, in combination, form infrastructure systems, distributed across a certain territory. The most important infrastructural facilities are called critical infrastructure (CI), and the most critical of them—strategic infrastructures (SIs).

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Timashev, S., Bushinskaya, A. (2016). Introduction. In: Diagnostics and Reliability of Pipeline Systems. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25307-7_1

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