Master's thesis of Engineering: Reliability assessment of water distribution networks under uncertain nodal demand and pipe roughness

In this study, MCS is applied to compute the reliability of the nodes and the network under uncertain demand and roughness, and to determine how reliability is distributed among the various nodes of WDN, as well as assessing the reliability of the network as a series or parallel system. The effect of the resilience index on the nodal and network reliability is also assessed. This research investigates the relationship between the reliability and resilience index at two levels of nodes and networks; thus, it fills the knowledge gap that exists in a process where only the resilience index is used, thereby providing a more comprehensive measure for the WDN operating under uncertain conditions.