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Evaluation of Serviceability of Canal Lining Based on AHP–Simple Correlation Function Method–Cloud Model: A Case Study in Henan Province, China

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  • Qingfu Li

    (School of Water Conservancy Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China)

  • Huade Zhou

    (School of Water Conservancy Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China)

  • Qiang Ma

    (Construction Management Bureau of the Second Phase Project of Zhaokou Irrigation District of the Yellow River, Kaifeng 475000, China)

  • Linfang Lu

    (Construction Management Bureau of the Second Phase Project of Zhaokou Irrigation District of the Yellow River, Kaifeng 475000, China)

Abstract

In the process of sustainable development within modern agriculture, in order to ensure that agricultural production has adequate water resources, canal lining (CL) is often used to transport water in order to reduce water seepage, thus promoting the sustainable utilization of water resources. However, due to the influence of the terrain, environment, human factors and other factors, the CL often suffers a certain degree of damage. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the serviceability of the CL, so to realize the sustainable use of the CL strategy. Aiming at the weight assignment of CL evaluation indices that are subjective and not combined with actual index data, a weight calculation method based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)–simple correlation function (SCF) method was proposed, and game theory was used to achieve combination weighting. For the evaluation indices with the characteristics of fuzziness and randomness, the cloud model (CM) was used to comprehensively consider these characteristics in order to realize the evaluation. Finally, a method to measure serviceability of CL based on AHP–SCF–CM was proposed. Taking a CL project in China as an example, this method was used to evaluate the serviceability of the CL. The evaluation result showed that the serviceability of the CL was poor, and the qualitative evaluation result was consistent with the actual damage condition of the project; meanwhile, a comparative study was performed in combination with the AHP–Entropy Weight (EW)–unascertained measurement theory (UMT). The quantitative evaluation results of the two methods displayed the same grade of serviceability, which verifies that the method proposed in this paper is more reasonable, objective and feasible from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. Furthermore, the evaluation results lay the foundation for subsequent maintenance and fault prevention of the canal.

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  • Qingfu Li & Huade Zhou & Qiang Ma & Linfang Lu, 2021. "Evaluation of Serviceability of Canal Lining Based on AHP–Simple Correlation Function Method–Cloud Model: A Case Study in Henan Province, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-25, November.
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