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http://dx.doi.org/10.3741/JKWRA.2006.39.2.089

An evaluation of the pipe failure impact in a water distribution system considering subsystem isolation  

Jun, Hw-Andon (Dept. of Civil Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University)
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Journal of Korea Water Resources Association / v.39, no.2, 2006 , pp. 89-98 More about this Journal
Abstract
To evaluate the pipe failure impact, current methodologies consider only a broken pipe as the impacted area. However, these approaches are accurate if the broken pipe is the only area isolated from tile system. Depending on the number and locations of on-off valves, more pipes which are adjacent to a broken pipe may be isolated. Using the concept of Segment suggested by Walski, the methodology evaluating the pipe failure impact incorporated with on-off valve locations has been suggested by Jun. However, a segment cannot account for all possible pipe failure impacted areas since it does not consider additional failures, namely the network topological failure and the hydraulic pressure failure. For this reason, a methodology which can consider the network topology and hydraulic pressure limitation as well as on-off valve locations is suggested. The suggested methodology is applied to a real network to verify its applicability As results, it is found that a single pipe failure can affect huge areas depending on the configuration of on-off valves and the network topology. Thus, the applicability of the suggested methodology for evaluating the pipe failure impacts on a water distribution network is proved.
Keywords
Pipe network; Segment; Isolation; Pipe failure impact; Hydraulic pressure failure;
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