Predicting vegetation-related failure rates for overhead distribution feeders

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1170-1175

  Radmer, Duane T ^a   Kuntz, Paul A ^a   Christie, Richard D ^a   Venkata, Subrahmanyam S ^b   Fletcher, Robert H ^c  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^c Snohomish County PUD #1 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Failure rate modeling; Failure rate prediction; Line clearance; Neural networks; Power distribution systems; Regression; Reliability; Tree trimming; Vegetation maintenance

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

OVERHEAD DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE; PLANTS;

EID: 0036814885     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2002.804006     Document Type: Article

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