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Cost Analysis of Water Pipe Failure

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Engineering in Dependability of Computer Systems and Networks (DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2019)

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In recent years, considerable development of water supply system is observed, which, unfortunately, do not protect against the failure occurrence of the water network. The water network constitutes a large part of water company assets. Failures are inseparably related to costs of their removal. Water companies are obliged to deliver potable water according to existing regulations. As to ensure water supply to every recipient at any time, they have to regard the costs of investment of failure network removal. If failure removal costs are not too high, appropriate action should be taken, which will improve safety by reducing the risk of the failure occurrence. Therefore in the paper, the detailed cost analysis was presented, based on real data regarding water network functioning.

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  1. Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstańców Warszawy 6, 35-959, Rzeszow, Poland

    Katarzyna Pietrucha-Urbanik & Barbara Tchórzewska-Cieślak

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  1. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Wojciech Zamojski

  2. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jacek Mazurkiewicz

  3. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jarosław Sugier

  4. Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Tomasz Walkowiak

  5. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Pietrucha-Urbanik, K., Tchórzewska-Cieślak, B. (2020). Cost Analysis of Water Pipe Failure. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Engineering in Dependability of Computer Systems and Networks. DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 987. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19501-4_41

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