A live test bed for the advancement of condition assessment and failure prediction research on critical pipes

摘要

The prediction of a pipe's remaining life, especially for critical water mains, is important for developing effective renewal programmes to manage pipe infrastructure and reduce the incidence of catastrophic failures. To increase knowledge around condition assessment an experimental test bed has been established at Sydney Water as part of a larger collaborative research team of Australian and international researchers and a consortium of national and international agencies to improve the technological and financial management of buried water mains. Jaime Vails Miro, Jeya Rajalingam, Teresa Vidal-Calleja, Freek de Bruijn, Roger Wood, Dammika Vitanage, Nalika Ulapane, Buddhi Wijerathna and Daoblige Su discuss the research project.