Revised Brazilian Standard Allows Wave Method

Effective August 17, 2017, Brazil has revised Standard ABNT NBR 12215-1, Project Guidelines for Water Mains – Part 1. Pressure Lines. The previous standard only recommended transient calculations using the Method of Characteristics. The current revision allows for the use KYPipe’s Wave Plan Method (or Wave Method). The revisions to the standard also recommend that the software be validated, that the studies be done for all the project stages, and adds parameters that should be used to represent boundary conditions.

The revised standard is currently available in Portuguese but not English. See section 5.8.4 (b).