Predicting the behavior of a pipe network using the "critical Z-score" as its performance indicator

Desalination

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 258-265

  Tsitsifli, S ^a   Kanakoudis, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Critical Z scores; Pipe networks; Reliability assessment

Indexed keywords

OPERATING PRESSURE; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PIPE NETWORKS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SWOT ANALYSIS; WALL THICKNESS; WATER PIPES; Z-SCORES;

BENCHMARKING; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER PIPELINES;

PIPE;

CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIPE; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 71849087364     PISSN: 00119164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2009.09.042     Document Type: Article

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