Urban Water Distribution Networks
Assessing Systems Vulnerabilities, Failures, and Risks

This practical guide provides a mathematical modeling methodology for conducting system-wide reliability assessments of urban water distribution networks

Symeon Christodoulou (Author), Michalis Fragiadakis (Author), Agathoklis Agathokleous (Author), Savvas Xanthos (Author)

9780128136522, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 12 September 2017

328 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.52 kg

Urban Water Distribution Networks: Assessing Systems Vulnerabilities and Risks provides a methodology for a system-wide assessment of water distribution networks (WDN) based on component analysis, network topology and, most importantly, the effects of a network's past performance on its seismic and/or non-seismic reliability. Water distribution networks engineers and system designers face multiple operational issues in delivering safe and clean potable water to their customers.

1. Introduction2. Vulnerability Assessment of WDN Under Non-Seismic Loads3. The Case of Intermittent Water Supply4. Vulnerability Assessment of WDN Under Seismic Loads5. City-Wide Risk Maps6. Hydraulic vulnerability Assessment of WDN7. Interconnected Networks

Subject Areas: Water supply & treatment [TQSW], Waste treatment & disposal [TQSR], Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ]