TY - GEN
T1 - Methods for risk and reliability analysis
AU - Mays, Larry
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Recently, there has been considerable emphasis on the state of decay in the nation's infrastructure because of its importance to society's needs and industrial growth. Water distribution systems are one of the many kinds of infrastructure systems amenable to higher levels of serviceability. Conventional design methods often fail to recognize, analyze, and account for, systematically, the effects of the various uncertainties that prevail in the design and operation of water distribution systems. Because of the existence of design and operation uncertainties, water distribution systems have an associated risk or probability of failure and an associated reliability or probability of not failing. The definition of failure can take on several meanings for a water distribution system, ranging from not meeting required pressure heads to the mechanical failure of a pipe or component. For water distribution systems, there are no universally accepted definitions for risk or reliability. The purpose of this paper is to review methods for risk and reliability evaluation of water distribution systems.
AB - Recently, there has been considerable emphasis on the state of decay in the nation's infrastructure because of its importance to society's needs and industrial growth. Water distribution systems are one of the many kinds of infrastructure systems amenable to higher levels of serviceability. Conventional design methods often fail to recognize, analyze, and account for, systematically, the effects of the various uncertainties that prevail in the design and operation of water distribution systems. Because of the existence of design and operation uncertainties, water distribution systems have an associated risk or probability of failure and an associated reliability or probability of not failing. The definition of failure can take on several meanings for a water distribution system, ranging from not meeting required pressure heads to the mechanical failure of a pipe or component. For water distribution systems, there are no universally accepted definitions for risk or reliability. The purpose of this paper is to review methods for risk and reliability evaluation of water distribution systems.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0028602635
SN - 0784400326
T3 - Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources, Proceedings of theConference
SP - 26
EP - 44
BT - Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources, Proceedings of theConference
A2 - Haimes, Yacov Y.
A2 - Moser, David A.
A2 - Stakhiv, Z.
PB - Publ by ASCE
T2 - Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Risk-Based Decision Making in Water Resources
Y2 - 31 October 1993 through 5 November 1993
ER -