Condition assessment of water mains using fuzzy evidential reasoning

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages 3466-3471

  Najjaran, Homayoun ^a   Sadiq, Rehan ^a   Rajani, Balvant ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corrosivity potential; Dempster Shafer theory; Fuzzy logic; Pipe corrosion; Soil properties

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; CORROSION RESISTANCE; DUCTILITY; IRON; PIPE; SOILS;

CORROSIVITY POTENTIAL; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; PIPE CORROSION; SOIL PROPERTIES;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 27944489967     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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