“…The viscoelasticity depends on the temperature, humidity, stress time history, and pipe constraints, therefore cannot be predicted by mechanical tests on pipe samples (Covas et al., 2004). Alternatively, the VEPs can be estimated by matching the transient measurement with its theoretical model, which incorporates the viscoelasticity via the generalized Kelvin‐Voigt (K‐V) model (Covas et al., 2005; Ferrante & Capponi, 2018; Keramat & Haghighi, 2014; Pan et al., 2020, 2021; Pezzinga et al., 2016; Soares et al., 2008; Wang, Lin, Ghidaoui, Meniconi, Brunone, 2020; Weinerowska‐Bords, 2015; Yao et al., 2016). Here, the VEP estimation is performed by the method in (Wang, Lin, Ghidaoui, Meniconi, Brunone, 2020), which is applicable even when unknown defects exist and uses only the first seven steady‐state crossing times (instead of the full signal).…”