AquaTwin Water V4.1 Expands its State-of-the-Art Earthquake Analysis Functionality with Tank Damage Estimation

Key Highlights

Earthquakes can be some of the most sudden and impactful disasters that a water distribution system can experience. An earthquake can cause damage to water system components including pipes and tanks that could take weeks, if not months, to fully repair. Additionally, earthquakes can cause power outages and fires. New version automatically:

• Evaluates seismic performance of existing pipes and tanks based on any scenario earthquake (earthquake location and magnitude).
• Determines system-wide performance given a particular earthquake scenario.
• Computes peak ground velocity (PGV) and peak ground acceleration (PGA) based on any scenario earthquake.
• Uses default or user-defined seismic fragility curves for pipelines and tanks.
• Calculates total water loss volume to leaks and breaks.
• Color-codes pipes based on magnitude of water loss volume.
• Identifies tanks that are taken out of service.
• Prioritizes resilience‐enhancing actions.
  
  

Aquanuity, Inc., the leader in strategy-led simulation-powered water infrastructure digital twin software, continues to innovate and quickly expand upon its best-in-class products and platform with the release of AquaTwin Water Generation V4.1 for ArcGIS Pro. The new version expands earthquake analysis functionality to include tank damage estimation. These powerful and unique capabilities let water utilities evaluate their water infrastructure resilience under earthquake and power outage scenarios, fire fighting capacity and pipe criticality, and prioritize repair strategies.

A comprehensive 64-bit feature-packed modeling and analysis software, AquaTwin Water is the next-generation AI-powered geocentric digital twin software for safe, reliable, sustainable and resilient water infrastructure. The software can effectively be used by both water utilities and their engineering consultants in all phases of the water infrastructure asset lifecycle. Design and size new water infrastructure, retrofit existing aging infrastructure, provide adequate capacity to fight fires, prepare wildfire resilience and power outage plans, forecast demands, optimize operations of tanks and pumps, reduce energy usage, investigate water quality problems, plan flushing operations, and prepare for emergencies. And armed with very fast and advanced simulation capabilities, users can model contamination threats and evaluate resilience to security threats, climate change or natural disasters.

“AquaTwin Water V4.1 marks another milestone in GIS-centric water infrastructure resilience analysis,” said Paul Boulos, Chairman and CEO of Aquanuity. “This latest release adds critical earthquake hazard analysis capabilities for estimating damage to tanks and reservoirs. Scenario earthquakes are useful for assessing the likely or maximum losses given that a particular earthquake occurs, for evaluating emergency response plans, and in meeting pre-set performance goals. We continue to push the technology curve to make it better, faster, easier for utilities to build, operate, manage, and sustain high-performing, highly efficient and resilient water infrastructure systems for success.”

About Aquanuity

Aquanuity is an engineering technology company focused on helping the world’s water infrastructure work better. We blend science and creativity to create cutting-edge innovations that play a critical role in advancing a sustainable future. Our innovative software fundamentally changes the way water utilities and engineering firms can use technology to create and manage safe, efficient, reliable, sustainable, resilient and smarter water infrastructure and build better communities.