Evaluating Mean Life of Power System Equipment with Limited End-of-Life Failure Data

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 236-242

  Li, Wenyuan ^a  

^a British Columbia Transmission Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

End of life failure; Equipment age; Failure data; Mean life; Power system reliability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CABLES; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

AGING FAILURE MODELS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 1442314555     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2003.821434     Document Type: Article

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