Files
Abstract
With the aging of water infrastructure systems and the challenge of building resilient and sustainable infrastructures for future, renovating water distribution networks (WDN) using holistic models is necessary. The understanding of infrastructure systems as complex adaptive system can be used as a framework to guide network master planning and engineering practices. A theoretical complex network model has been created following the combination of local optimization rules and engineering considerations. The demand nodes were generated dynamically following the scaling law of urban growth and considering geographic restrictions. To model the growth of real-world water distribution networks, Geographic Information System (GIS) was integrated into the complex network model. The model was used to develop WDN for Athens Clarke County and the result was compared with real-world WDNs reported by other literature. In general, the comparison showed that the structural properties of the generated WDN agree with the real-world WDNs.