Methods
A transparent workflow for current engineering research without turning freshness into overclaiming.
Evidence hierarchy
Primary standards bodies, regulators, research organisations, operators and original technical publications are preferred. Secondary commentary is used only when it adds clearly labelled context.
Signal workflow
Detect → Verify → Test the Evidence Boundary → Publish → Link to the corpus → Update when evidence changes.
Six questions
Origin · Binding · Context · Continuity · Currency · Sufficiency.
Independence
DrKu.net remains the independent steel-pipe and pipeline research identity of Dr. Howard Ku. This hub does not merge or co-brand unrelated research programmes.
Publication discipline
Signals are not counted as white papers. Conference acceptance is not counted as a publication. Website records do not receive invented DOI, peer-review status, citation counts or endorsement claims.