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Table 2 List of randomly selected publications
No Title Year Reference
1 Identifying Water Main Leaks With Trihalomethane 1985 (Hargesheimer et al. 1985)
Tracers
2 Leak Detection Methods for Pipelines 1987 (Billmann and Isermann 1987)
3 Ten Years of Experience with Leak Detection by 1991 (Fuchs and Riehle 1991)
Acoustic Signal Analysis
4 Designing a Cost Effective and Reliable Pipeline Leak 1997 (Zhang 1997)
Detection System
5 Ground-penetrating radar for detection of leaks in 1998 (Hunaidi and Giamou 1998)
buried plastic water distribution pipes
6 Acoustical characteristics of leak signals in plastic water 1999 (Hunaidi and Chu 1999)
distribution pipes
7 Leak Detection And Calibration Using Transients And 2000 (Vítkovský et al. 2000)
Genetic Algorithms
8 Detecting Leak in Plastic Pipes 2000 (Hunaidi et al. 2000)
9 Acoustic methods for locating leaks in municipal water 2004 (Hunaidi et al. 2004)
pipe networks
10 Frequency domain analysis for detecting pipeline leaks 2005 (Lee et al. 2005)
11 Pipeline Network Features and Leak Detection by Cross- 2005 (Beck et al. 2005)
Correlation Analysis of Reflected Waves
12 A New system for locating leaks in urban water distribution 2006 (Hunaidi and Wang 2006)
pipes
13 PIPENET: A Wireless Sensor Network for Pipeline Monitoring 2007 (Stoianov et al. 2007a, 2007b)
14 Comparison of two Detection Algorithms for Pipeline Leaks 2007 (Begovich et al. 2007)
15 Fiber optic in-line distributed sensor for detection and 2007 (Huang et al. 2007)
localization of the pipeline leaks
16 Water loss detection via genetic algorithm optimization-based 2008 (Wu and Sage 2008)
model calibration
17 Detecting and locating leaks in underground water mains 2009 (Fahmy and Moselhi 2009)
using thermography
18 A selective literature review of transient-based leak detection 2009 (Colombo et al. 2009)
methods
19 Pressure-dependent leak detection model and its application 2009 (Wu et al. 2009)
to a district water system
20 Leak detection and isolation in water distribution networks 2010 (Gertler et al. 2010)
using principal component analysis and structured residuals
21 Detecting and Locating Leaks in Water Distribution 2010 (Pal et al. 2010)
Polyethylene Pipes
22 Acoustic Detection of Leaks in Water Pipelines Using 2011 (Khulief et al. 2011)
Measurements inside Pipe
23 Time domain reflectometry, ground penetrating radar and 2014 (Cataldo et al. 2014)
electrical resistivity tomography: a comparative analysis of
alternative approaches for leak detection in underground pipes
24 SmartPipes: Smart Wireless Sensor Networks for Leak Detection 2014 (Sadeghioon et al. 2014)
in Water Pipelines
25 Multi-tier method using infrared photography and GPR to 2016 (Atef et al. 2016)
detect and locate water leaks
26 Mobile sensor networks for optimal leak and backflow detection 2016 (Gong et al. 2016)
and localization in municipal water networks
27 Wireless Gas Leak Detection and Localization 2016 (Chraim et al. 2016)
28 Leak Detection, Size Estimation and Localization in Pipe Flows 2016 (Aamo 2016)
29 Perturbation mapping of water leak in buried water pipes via 2016 (Lai et al. 2016)
laboratory validation experiments with high-frequency ground
penetrating radar (GPR)
30 Locating leaks in water mains using noise loggers 2016 (El-Abbasy et al. 2016)
31 Statistical process control-based system for approximate location 2017 (Romano et al. 2017)
pipe bursts and leaks in water distribution systems
