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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"pipe breaks"”.
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Low-cost soft sensors and robots for leak detection in operating water pipes
… clean water produced in the world is lost due to pipe leaks. Due to limitations in available technologies, most of the leaks are either not found, or found too late. Every year, there are 240,000 water pipe breaks in the US, and many of them cause sinkholes and other severe damage to the …
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Application and Evaluation of Non-Destructive Testing Methods for Buried Pipes
… assessment methods for both cast iron water pipes and large diameter sewer and culvert systems. A state-of-the-art review of Non-destructive Testing (NDT) technologies available for cast iron water pipes and corrugated steel culverts identified the strengths and weaknesses of each technology. …
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An optimal replacement-design model for a reliable water distribution network system
… distribution system is a network of underground pipes, usually mirroring the city street network, that connects water supply sources such as reservoirs and water towers with demand points such as residential homes, industrial sites and fire hydrants. These systems are extremely expensive to …
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Flood hazard alteration and natural catastrophe insurance
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms