Criticality ASSESSMENT OF WATER PIPELINES

Dear Sir/Madam

We would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to you for taking part of your time to
complete this questionnaire, which aims to identify the degree of importance of the factors affecting
the criticality assessment of water pipelines. The questionnaire is needed for a research project to
build a criticality assessment model which will be integrated with a reliability model to provide a
holistic performance assessment model for water pipelines. The information in the questionnaire will
be used solely for research purposes and will be treated in absolute confidentiality. The literature
review and the interviews with experts have indicated that the main factors having an effect on the

Economic Factors Enviromental Factors Social Factors

Soil Type
Pipeline Size Road Type

Proximity to rivers and streams

Pipeline Material Existing of Alternative Route

Installation Depth
Type of Serviced Area

Low Accessibility

criticality of the water pipelines are as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Factors affecting water pipelines criticality

After reviewing the main factors listed; kindly fill in parts (1) to (3) of this questionnaire.

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 PART (1) : GENERAL INFORMATION
1) How do you describe your occupation?

2) How long do you describe your working experience?

PART (2): PAIRWISE COMPARISON BETWEEN FACTORS

In an attempt to determine the degree of importance of factors affecting the criticality of
water pipelines, kindly fill the tables in the next pages by ticking () in the appropriate box based on
your point of view:
Example:
In the table below, consider comparing Pipeline Size (Criterion X) with Pipeline Material (Criterion Y) with respect to Physical Factors.
PHYSICAL FACTORS
Criterion Criterion
Degree of Importance
(X) (Y)
(7) Very Strong

(7) Very Strong

(3) Moderate

(3) Moderate
(9) Absolute

(9) Absolute
(5) Strong

(5) Strong
(1) Equal

Pipeline Material
Pipeline Size Installation Depth
Low Accessibility
If you consider that Pipeline Size is more If you consider both Pipeline Size and If you consider the Pipeline Material is more
important than Pipeline Material and the Pipeline Material have Equal important than Pipeline Size and the degree
importance; then tick () here.
degree of this importance is Strong then of importance is Absolute then tick ()
tick () here here

The same procedure is then followed when comparing Pipeline Size with Installation Depth and
Low Accessibility.
Pair wise Comparison between Factors:
Degree of Importance
Strong(7) Very

Strong(7) Very
(3) Moderate

(3) Moderate

(9) Absolute
Absolute(9)

(5) Strong

(5) Strong
(1) Equal

Criterion Criterion
(X) (Y)

WATER PIPELINES Criticality

Environmental Factors
Economic Factors
Social Factors
Environmental
Social Factors
Factors

ECONOMIC FACTORS
Pipeline Size Pipeline Material
Installation Depth

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 Low Accessibility
Installation Depth
Pipeline Material
Low Accessibility
Installation Depth Low Accessibility

ENVIROMENTAL FACTORS
Proximity to rivers and
Soil Type
streams

SOCIAL FACTORS
Existing of Alternative
Road Type Route
Type of Serviced Area
Existing of
Type of Serviced Area
Alternative Route

Degree of Importance

Strong(7) Very
(7) Very Strong

(3) Moderate

(3) Moderate

(9) Absolute
(9) Absolute

(5) Strong

(5) Strong
(1) Equal

Criterion Criterion
(X) (Y)

ECONOMIC FACTORS
Environmental
Social Factors
Factors

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
Economic Factors Social Factors

SOCAIL FACTORS
Economic Factors Environmental Factors

Part (3): Water Components Weights:

Assume that a hypothetical segment of water encompasses a pipe, an isolation valve, a control
valve, and a hydrant. Kindly fill the following table to show the degree of importance of water
components. The total percentages should sum to 100.

Component Importance weight (%)

A pipe
An Isolation Valve
A Control Valve
A Hydrant
Total 100
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