Assessment of Damage and Serviceability of Water Systems Following Earthquakes

Assessment of Damage and Serviceability of Water Systems Following Earthquakes

A technology used for the assessment of water transmission and distribution systems following earthquakes has been preliminarily developed in a previous research work. To further enhance the developed technology, efforts that account pipe damages caused by earthquake-induced ground failure were made this year, and renewed probability models of pipe breaks and leaks and improved algorithm for simulating the locations of pipe damages have been proposed in this study. Also, the damage and serviceability of water mainlines in Yi-lan, Taiwan under an M7.1 earthquake scenario has been assessed in detail.