Future approaches for sewer system condition assessment

  • Different analytical approaches exist to describe the structural substance or wear reserve of sewer systems. The aim is to convert engineering assessments of often complex defect patterns into computational algorithms and determine a substance class for a sewer section or manhole. This analytically determined information is essential for strategic rehabilitation planning processes up to network level, as it corresponds to the most appropriate rehabilitation type and can thus provide decision-making support. Current calculation methods differ clearly from each other in parts, so that substance classes determined by the different approaches are only partially comparable with each other. The objective of the German R&D cooperation project ‘SubKanS’ is to develop a methodology for classifying the specific defect patterns resulting from the interaction of all the individual defects, and their severities and locations. The methodology takes into account the structural substance of sewer sections and manholes, based on real data and theoretical considerations analogous to the condition classification of individual defects. The result is a catalogue of defect patterns and characteristics, as well as associated structural substance classifications of sewer systems (substance classes). The methodology for sewer system substance classification is developed so that the classification of individual defects can be transferred into a substance class of the sewer section or manhole, eventually taking into account further information (e.g. pipe material, nominal diameter, etc.). The result is a validated methodology for automated sewer system substance classification.

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Author:Karsten KerresORCiD, Sylvia Gredigk-Hoffmann, Rüdiger Jathe, Stefan Orlik, Mustafa Sariyildiz, Torsten Schmidt, Klaus-Jochen Sympher, Adrian Uhlenbroch
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2020.027
ISSN:1751-231X
Parent Title (English):Water Practice & Technology
Publisher:IWA Publishing
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2020
Issue:15 (2)
First Page:386
Last Page:393
Link:https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2020.027
Zugriffsart:weltweit
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Bauingenieurwesen
collections:Verlag / IWA Publishing