A Review and Evaluation of Reliability Concepts for Design of Water Distribution Systems
A Review and Evaluation of Reliability Concepts for Design of Water Distribution Systems

Author: Larry W. Mays

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This study assembles information related to the applicability of mechanical reliability concepts to the evaluation of water distribution systems. Included in the report is a detailed review of water resources and reliability literature and development of a conceptual basis for a technique or methodology to apply reliability concepts to the design and evaluation of water distribution systems. A comprehensive review of the reliability literature indicates that even the term 'reliability' is ill defined when applied to the analysis of water distribution systems. The concept of availability proved to be a more valuable concept. Methods for quantifying availability of discrete water distribution system components are developed. Specific examples of pump station and pipe reliability analysis are presented. An extensive list of applicable references is included as Appendix A. Of primary interest to the designer of water distribution systems is the inventory of computer codes available for reliability analysis. (Author).

Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems
Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems

Author: American Society of Civil Engineers. Task Committee on Risk and Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems

Publisher: ASCE Publications

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On up-to-date methodologies for the reliability analysis and reliability-based design of water distribution systems. Brings together many new methodologies that can prove valuable in the assessment of aging water distribution systems and in the design and expansion of water supply systems. No index. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc

Analysis of Water Distribution Networks
Analysis of Water Distribution Networks

Author: Pramod R. Bhave

Publisher: Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9781842653593

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Analysis of a Water Distribution Network may be necessary to know its behaviour under normal and deficient conditions and the design of a new network. Various methods such as Hardy Cross, Newton-Raphson, Linear Theory, and Gradient for static and time-dependent (extended period) analyses are described with small illustrative examples. The book also covers analysis considering withdrawal along links, head-dependent and performance-based analyses, calibration of existing networks, water quality modeling, analysis considering uncertainty of parameters, and reliability analysis of water distribution networks. Brief description of available computer softwares is also given.

Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks
Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks

Author: Pramod R. Bhave

Publisher: Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9781842651322

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Design of water distribution networks is traditionally based on trial-and-approach in which the designer assumes, based on experience and judgment, sizes of different elements and successively modifies them until a network with satisfactory hydraulic performance is obtained. This text covers: Essential hydraulic, economic optimization principles. Theory is developed gradually for optimal design of simple, single-source branched networks subjected to single loading to complex, multiple-source looped networks subjected to multiple loading. Strengthening and expansion of existing networks and also reliability-based design. Several illustrative examples enabling the reader to apply them in practice- approximately 100 line drawings.

Improving Efficiency and Reliability in Water Distribution Systems
Improving Efficiency and Reliability in Water Distribution Systems

Author: Enrique Cabrera

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9401718415

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book contains the lectures given in the International Course "Improving efficiency and reliability in water supply systems", hosted and sponsored by the Menendez Pelayo International University (U.I.M.P.) and co-sponsored by Aguas de Valencia, the British Council and the EC Cornett and Erasmus programmes. The short course took place in Valencia (Spain) in November 1994, with an attendance of more than one hundred delegates. We must not only acknowedge and thank Dr. Joaquin Azagra, as UIMP Director, but also his collaborators D. Luis Moreno and Lidia Lopez for their support in the preparation of the Course and during the course taking place. UIMP sponsorship allowed us to assemble in Valencia an eminent cadre of lecturers coming from all over the world, that covered in an ordered and precise fashion some of the more relevant aspects on efficiency and reliability in water supply systems. We are very thankful to all these leading lecturers for their invaluable cooperation. The publication of this book and the Spanish edition as well, have been made possible thanks to the sponsorship of both Polytechnic University of Valencia througout its Chancellor, Justo Nieto, and Aguas de Valencia throughout its General Director Alvaro Aguirre. We must also thank Kluwer Academic Publishers and especially their Publisher Petra van Steenbergen for her assistance, careful presentation and production of the book.

Computer Modeling of Free-Surface and Pressurized Flows
Computer Modeling of Free-Surface and Pressurized Flows

Author: M. Hanif Chaudhry

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 9401109648

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Computers are widely used for the analysis, design, and operation of water resource projects. This gives accurate results, allowing the analysis of complex systems which may not have been possible otherwise, and the investigation and comparison of several different alternatives in a short time, thereby reducing the project costs, optimizing design, and efficient utilization of resources. This volume compiles an edited version of the lecture notes specially prepared by 14 well-known European and North American researchers. Part I deals with free-surface flows. Governing equations are derived and their solution by the finite-difference, finite-element, and boundary-integral methods are discussed. Then, turbulence models, three-dimensional models, dam-break flow models, sediment transport models, and flood routing models are presented. Part II is related to the modeling of steady and transient pressurized flows. Governing equations for both single and two-component flows are derived and numerical methods for their solution are presented. The modeling of water quality in pipe networks, of cooling water systems, and slow and rapid transients is then discussed.

Application of Frequency and Risk in Water Resources
Application of Frequency and Risk in Water Resources

Author: V.P. Singh

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9400939558

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Floods constitute a persistent and serious problem throughout the United States and many other parts of the world. They are responsible for losses amounting to billions of dollars and scores of deaths annually. Virtually all parts of the nation--coastal, moun tainous and rural--are affected by them. Two aspects of the problem of flooding that have long been topics of scientific inquiry are flood frequency and risk analyses. Many new, even improved, tech niques have recently been developed for performing these analyses. Nevertheless, actual experience points out that the frequency of say a IOO-year flood, in lieu of being encountered on the average once in one hundred years, may be as little as once in 25 years. It is therefore appropriate to pause and ask where we are, where we are going and where we ought to be going with regard to the technology of flood frequency and risk analyses. One way to address these ques tions is to provide a forum where people from all quarters of the world can assemble, discuss and share their experience and expertise pertaining to flood frequency and risk analyses. This is what con stituted the motivation for organizing the International Symposium on Flood Frequency and Risk Analyses held May 14-17, 1986, at Louisiana State Universj. ty, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.