Acoustic Detection of Leaks in Water Pipelines Using Measurements inside Pipe

Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 47-54

  Khulief, Y A ^a   Khalifa, A ^b   Mansour, R Ben ^a   Habib, M A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Hydrophones; Leak detection; Water pipelines

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DETECTION; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; IN-PIPE; TURBULENT JET; WATER TRANSMISSION PIPELINES;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; HYDROPHONES; LEAK DETECTION; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER PIPELINES;

PIPE;

EID: 84860803110     PISSN: 19491190     EISSN: 19491204     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)PS.1949-1204.0000089     Document Type: Article

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