Damage assessment and soft reliability evaluation of existing transmission lines

2004 International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 980-986

  Hathout, Ibrahim ^a  

^a ONTARIO HYDRO TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Damage assessment; Existing structures; Lines; Soft reliability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CORROSION; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS; INSPECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; EXISTING STRUCTURES; LINES; SOFT-RELIABILITY;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 14544267189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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