Quantitative Assessment of System Response during Disruptions: An Application to Water Distribution Systems
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 147, Issue 3
Abstract
The resilience of water distribution systems (WDSs) has gained increasing attention in recent years. Various performance loss and recovery behaviors have been observed for WDSs subject to disruptions. However, a model for their characterization, which could provide further insight for resilience assessment and enhancement, is still lacking. Here, the authors develop a recovery function to model WDS performance over time following a disruption. This function is useful to compare system responses under different disruption and recovery scenarios and supports the identification of areas for improvement within various aspects of the resilience of a WDS. The proposed model was applied to two benchmark networks. Different scenarios were analyzed in which one node at a time was disrupted and two recovery strategies were implemented. It was found that the developed model supports the implementation of tailored strategies to improve WDS resilience according to the location of the disruption, therefore enhancing the efficient allocation of resources.
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Data Availability Statement
The following data and code that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request: (1) Net3 and C-Town water network models in INP EPANET format, and (2) Python code generated to conduct the study.
Acknowledgments
The research was conducted at the Future Resilient Systems at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), which was established collaboratively between ETH Zurich and the National Research Foundation Singapore. This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme. In addition, this research was part of the DeSIRE-programme (Designing Systems for Informed Resilience Engineering) of the 4TU Centre for Resilience Engineering (4TU.RE) which is funded by the 4TU-programme High Tech for a Sustainable Future (HTSF).
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Received: Jan 29, 2020
Accepted: Sep 19, 2020
Published online: Jan 12, 2021
Published in print: Mar 1, 2021
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