Abstract: Residential development in fire-prone wildlands is a growing problem for land-use and emergency planners. In many areas housing is increasing without commensurate improvement in the primary road network. This compromises ...

Abstract: The current paper aims at the assessment of the effectiveness of a popular transient-based technique—inverse transient analysis (ITA)—for leak detection in water pipe systems using physical data. Data were collected from ...

Abstract: Communicating risk to evacuated populations is challenging for emergency officials during the return-entry phase. Although decades of research focused on understanding relationships between risk communication and evacuation ...

Abstract: The efficient planning of operation and maintenance (O&M) interventions and short-term investments requires adequate and tailored inspection protocols of existing infrastructures. The current study proposes a new ...

Abstract: The current paper aims at the establishment and validation of reference cost functions for different types of assets of water supply systems based on known hydraulic (e.g., flow, pump head, pump power) and physical ...

Abstract: The fundamental background of the solution for the steady-state flow in pressurized water closed-loop pipe systems, without any reservoirs in-between, is presented in this paper. The use of the steady-state mass balance ...

Abstract: The current paper focuses on leakage detection in pipe systems by means of the standing wave difference method (SWDM) used for cable fault location in electrical engineering. This method is based on the generation of a ...

Abstract: This paper focuses on the analysis of unsteady pipe flows caused by a pump trip in a water pipeline system. Field experiments have been carried out to collect transient pressure and steady-state flow rate data in the ...

Abstract: This research work focuses on the analysis of hydraulic transients in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes, which are characterized by a viscoelastic rheological behavior. Transient pressure data were collected in a pipe rig ...