Benefits of using basic, imprecise or uncertain data for elaborating sewer inspection programmes

Structure and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 376-388

  Ahmadi, Mehdi ^a,b   Cherqui, Frédéric ^c,d   De Massiac, Jean Christophe ^a   Le Gauffre, Pascal ^b,c  

^a G2C Environnement   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

assets; data analysis; decision support system; failures; inspection; regression analysis; sewers and drains

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DETERIORATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEWERS;

ASSETS; AUXILIARY VARIABLES; DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY; DETERIORATION MODELS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PREDICTIVE POWER; SEWER INSPECTION; UNCERTAIN DATAS;

INSPECTION;

EID: 84914670701     PISSN: 15732479     EISSN: 17448980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2014.887122     Document Type: Article

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