Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0772320
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Micro-reflections for pipe condition assessment in water networks. Maintaining highly reliable water supply pipeline infrastructure for cities, towns and in rural Australia is extremely important. Our research will develop new non-invasive condition assessment techniques. Transient events will be used to create pressure waves that travel up and down a pipe. Sophisticated analysis of the micro-reflections in the measured pressure traces will be the heart of the new techniques. Water utility managers will be able to make a detailed assessment of the interior pipe wall to determine if significant corrosion or deterioration of the cement mortar lining has occurred. Rehabilitation strategies can then be determined. These new techniques will replace camera inspections that are extremely invasive and expensive.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2007
End Date: 12-2009
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $380,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Civil Engineering | Water And Sanitary Engineering
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Instrumentation | Energy storage and distribution | Physical sciences |
