Water pipes deterioration modeling has been a prevalent research topic in the last two
decades due to high water break incidents and contamination rates. Failure processes are …

ABSTRACT Water Shortage Risk (WSR) map is a tool to establish priorities to take actions in
the management of Urban Water Supply Systems (UWSS). This work presents a …

Normally, most of the accidents that occur in underground facilities are not instantaneous;
rather, hazards build up gradually behind the scenes and are invisible due to the inherent …

Aging infrastructure and funding problems continue to plague water supply networks
worldwide. The failure risk of water mains is posing a considerable threat to drinking water …

The Mamdani fuzzy inference method is one of the most important fuzzy logic control (FLC)
techniques and has several applications in different fields. Despite its applications, the …

As populations grow, facilities such as roads, bridges, railways lines, commercial and
residential buildings, etc., must be expanded and maintained. There are extensive networks …

Methods for the development of fuzzy and linguistic models of technological objects, which
are characterized by the fuzzy output parameters and linguistic values of the input and …

The relevance of the research is caused by the need to solve effectively the problems of
controlling the operating modes of chemicaltechnological systems, which are multi-criteria …

Periodic surface inspections of Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) buried in the soil aren't
possible. Failures, leakage or malfunctioning to these networks usually appear when they …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to attempt to shift away from an exclusive probabilistic
viewpoint or a pure network theory-based perspective for vulnerability assessment of …