Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake Risk

Long-term outage of drinking water supply after earthquakes has large adverse impacts on the lives of residents and cities’ water supply systems. Priority assessment is required to determine the effective order of preparing the measures against these hazards. Previous studies have insufficiently foc...

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Main Authors: Shogo Hamamoto, Lisa Ito, Akihiro Tokai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/4/572
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description Long-term outage of drinking water supply after earthquakes has large adverse impacts on the lives of residents and cities’ water supply systems. Priority assessment is required to determine the effective order of preparing the measures against these hazards. Previous studies have insufficiently focused on the effects of seismic resistance of core pipelines, thereby affecting all the other branched pipelines that supply the water to each residential area. In our research, we aimed to propose the appropriate order of core pipelines derived from the center of the water treatment plants in Osaka, Japan against the Nankai Trough earthquake. Solutions that cause less damage have been needed because natural disaster prediction has had a lot of uncertainty. We proposed indices that can evaluate an appropriate renewal plan that considers the damage of core pipelines of water and the renewal cost for core pipeline networks based on the scenario analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation. The amount of water distribution of core pipelines in each area is the top priority when renewing them in terms of cost-effectiveness and expected rate of water outage under the disaster.
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spelling doaj.art-baec734ed7a84352bb30e5b4c58dc5262023-12-11T18:08:35ZengMDPI AGWater2073-44412021-02-0113457210.3390/w13040572Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake RiskShogo Hamamoto0Lisa Ito1Akihiro Tokai2Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, JapanGraduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, JapanGraduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita 565-0871, Osaka, JapanLong-term outage of drinking water supply after earthquakes has large adverse impacts on the lives of residents and cities’ water supply systems. Priority assessment is required to determine the effective order of preparing the measures against these hazards. Previous studies have insufficiently focused on the effects of seismic resistance of core pipelines, thereby affecting all the other branched pipelines that supply the water to each residential area. In our research, we aimed to propose the appropriate order of core pipelines derived from the center of the water treatment plants in Osaka, Japan against the Nankai Trough earthquake. Solutions that cause less damage have been needed because natural disaster prediction has had a lot of uncertainty. We proposed indices that can evaluate an appropriate renewal plan that considers the damage of core pipelines of water and the renewal cost for core pipeline networks based on the scenario analysis and the Monte Carlo simulation. The amount of water distribution of core pipelines in each area is the top priority when renewing them in terms of cost-effectiveness and expected rate of water outage under the disaster.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/4/572earthquake resiliencewater pipelinescost–benefit analysisrenewal priorityscenario analysis
spellingShingle Shogo Hamamoto
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Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake Risk
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earthquake resilience
water pipelines
cost–benefit analysis
renewal priority
scenario analysis
title Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake Risk
title_full Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake Risk
title_fullStr Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake Risk
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake Risk
title_short Assessment of Renewal Priority of Water Pipeline Network against Earthquake Risk
title_sort assessment of renewal priority of water pipeline network against earthquake risk
topic earthquake resilience
water pipelines
cost–benefit analysis
renewal priority
scenario analysis
url https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/4/572
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