Reliability evaluations of railway power supplies by fault-tree analysis

IET Electric Power Applications

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-172

  Chen, S K ^a,b   Ho, T K ^a   Mao, B H ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MAINTENANCE OF WAY; RAIL MOTOR CARS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

AC RAILWAYS; RAILWAY POWER SYSTEMS;

POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34047137983     PISSN: 17518660     EISSN: 17518679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-epa:20060244     Document Type: Article

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