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James Geisbush and Samuel T. Ariaratnam
The consequences of failures from large-diameter water pipelines can be severe. Results can include significant property damage, adjacent damage to infrastructure such as roads and bridges resulting in transportation delays or shutdowns, adjacent structu...
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Zongyuan Zhang, Hongyuan Fang, Bin Li and Fuming Wang
Concrete pipes are the most widely used municipal drainage pipes in China. When concrete pipes fall into years of disrepair, numerous problems appear. As one of the most common problems of concrete pipes, cracks impact on the deterioration of mechanical ...
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Khaled Yousef, Ahmed Hegazy and Abraham Engeda
An experimental and numerical study is presented in the current work for gas entrainment using an inverted vertical U-tube. Water flows vertically up in an inverted U-tube which creates a low-pressure region in the tube upper portion. This low-pressure r...
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Manjie Li, Zhaowei Liu and Yongcan Chen
Corrosion scales formed on iron pipe surfaces are an important factor defining water quality in drinking water distribution systems, since they would release contaminants and cause water discoloration at transient hydrodynamic regimes. Consequently, char...
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Patricia Gómez-Martínez, Francisco Cubillo, Francisco J. Martín-Carrasco and Luis Garrote
Aging infrastructure is the main challenge currently faced by water suppliers. Estimation of assets lifetime requires reliable criteria to plan assets repair and renewal strategies. To do so, pipe break prediction is one of the most important inputs. Thi...
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