Transmission line reliability: Climate change and extreme weather

Electrical Transmission Line and Substation Structures: Structural Reliability in a Changing World - Proceedings of the 2006 Electrical Transmission Conference

Volumn 218, Issue , 2006, Pages 12-26

  Peters, Gibson ^a   Digioia, A M ^a,b   Hendrickson, Chris ^a   Apt, Jay ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DiGioia Gray and Associates LLC   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTREME WEATHER; STRUCTURAL LOADING DESIGN; WIND LOADING; WIND VELOCITIES;

ELECTRIC LINES; HURRICANES; OUTAGES; RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL LOADS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 33847697757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40790(218)2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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