Prediction of water pipe asset life using neural networks

Journal of Infrastructure Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 26-30

  Achim, D ^a   Ghotb, F ^a   McManus, K J ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neural networks; Predictions; Statistics; Water pipelines

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICS;

PIPELINE FAILURE; SHIFTED TIME EXPONENTIAL MODEL;

WATER PIPELINES;

DETERIORATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICS; WATER PIPELINES;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PIPELINE; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847216878     PISSN: 10760342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2007)13:1(26)     Document Type: Article

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