Listening for Defects

Acoustic technology provides improved condition assessment of asbestos cement water mains.

Asbestos cement-lined water mains degrade when subjected to long-term exposure to sulfates and byproducts of biofilms that form on their interior walls. AC pipes also lose structural integrity as a result of "leaching," a chemical process in which calcium contained in the...

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