Earthquake simulator testing of base-isolated power transformers

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1291-1299

  Murota, Nobuo ^a   Feng, Maria Q ^b   Liu, Gee Yu ^c  

^a BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Base isolation; Bushing; Earthquake simulator; Electric power transformer; Seismic; Substations

Indexed keywords

BUSHINGS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS;

BASE ISOLATION; EARTHQUAKE SIMULATOR;

ELECTRIC TRANSFORMER TESTING;

EID: 33745619228     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2006.874586     Document Type: Article

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