Response of transmission lines to multiple support excitation

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 936-946

  Ghobarah, A ^a   Aziz, T S ^a   El Attar, M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cables; Coherency; Dynamic; Earthquake; Ground motion; Multiple support; Response; Towers; Transmission lines

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC LINE SUPPORTS; ELECTRIC TOWERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

INCOHERENT SEISMIC GROUND MOTIONS; MULTIPLE SUPPORT EXCITATION; OVERHEAD POWER TRANSMISSION LINES; TRANSMISSION TOWERS;

OVERHEAD LINES;

EID: 0030393741     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-0296(96)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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