Volume 2
Mathematical Models and Methods in Reliability Set
coordinated by
Nikolaos Limnios and Bo Henry Lindqvist
First published 2016 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015955809
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ISBN 978-1-84821-891-8
The research work presented in this book arises from the involvement of the author in engineering studies of the reliability of drinking water pipes. This type of infrastructure is organized as a network of pipelines, and failures, namely leakage or breakage, tend to occur in an aggregative manner on the same network segments. Building relevant strategies of infrastructure asset management requires, therefore, accurate modeling tools of the repeated failures that can affect some pipes, due to the heavy socioeconomic and environmental consequences of leakage and breakage.
Yves Le Gat
October 2015