Risk assessment of catastrophic failures in electric power systems

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-63

  Mili, L ^a   Qiu, Q ^a   Phadke, A G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascading failures; Electric power systems; Hidden failures; Risk assessment; Weak links

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENGINEERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PLANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CASCADING FAILURES; HIDDEN FAILURES; POWER ENGINEERS; WEAK LINKS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 10444258312     PISSN: 14753219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCIS.2004.003795     Document Type: Article

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