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Fuzzy-based method to evaluate soil corrosivity for prediction of water main deterioration

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1076-0342(2004)10:4(149)
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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Subjectcorrosion; fuzzy sets; water supply systems; deterioration; soil properties; soil resistance; Water mains
Abstract
This paper proposes a fuzzy-based method for evaluating soil corrosivity to predict water main deterioration based on soil resistivity, pH, redox potential, sulfide content and soil type. The fuzzy-based method considers three levels of soil corrosivity, non-corrosive, moderately corrosive and corrosive - in contrast to the commonly used 10-point scoring method, which has only two classes, corrosive and non-corrosive. Two case studies are used to validate the application of the proposed fuzzy-based method to predict soil corrosivity and the results are compared to the 10-point method.
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  • Journal of Infrastructure Systems 10, no. December 4 (1 December 2004): 149–156.
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedYes
NRC numberNRCC 45716
NRC-IRC-14997
NPARC number20386452
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