Prediction of PCCP Failure Based on Hydrophne Detecting

Prestressed Concrete Cylinder Pipe (PCCP) is a widely used water pipe all over the world. A major cause of PCCP failure is the internal wire break, which will emit acoustic signal. In this paper, a hydrophone-based PCCP real-time monitoring and failure-prediction system was proposed. By applying wavelet energy normalization analysis to signal feature extraction and Support Vector Machine (SVM) to signal recognition, a high prediction accuracy of 98.33% was achieved. The result showed that the hydrophone-based PCCP failure prediction system is much more effective and economic in real application compared with electromagnetic method and acoustic fiber optical.