Reliability assessment of electrical overhead distribution wood poles

2006 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, PMAPS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Li, Hong ^a   Zhang, Jiansen ^a   Bhuyan, Gouri ^a  

^a POWERTECH LABS INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

CSA C22.3 no.1; Ice; Structural reliability; Tangent pole; Wind; Wood poles

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; POLES; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; STANDARDS; WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

APPLIED (CO); DESIGN PRACTICES; DETERMINISTIC APPROACH; DETERMINISTIC DESIGN; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; POWER SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; WOOD POLES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER; ICE; PROBABILITY; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RELIABILITY; STANDARDS; WIND; WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 46149121275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2006.360417     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (9)

1. CSA C22.3 No. 1 - Overhead System, 2001.
2. IEC 60826 - Design Criteria of Overhead Transmission Lines (Also the previous published guidelines- Loading and Strength of Overhead Transmission Lines - IEC-TC11 -Publication 826, 1991.
3. ASCE -74 Guidelines for Transmission Line Structural Loading, 1991
4. Draft ASCE/SEI, Reliability-Based Design of Utility Pole Structure, 2003.
5. Bhuyan, G., Li, H., and Foschi, R.O. "Assessing Design Approaches for Overhead Transmission Lines Under Climatic Loads For New Projects As Well as for Verification of Lines to be Upgraded", CEATI Report T003700-3301, 2003.
6. Li, H, Zhang, J.S. and Bhuyan, G. "Assess Structural Reliability of Distribution Overhead Wood Pole Lines" CEATI Report (Draft) T044700-5047 2005
7. Revision to CSA C22.3 No. 1 2001, Replace Page 85, December 2003.
8. CAN/CSA 015, Wood Utility Poles and Reinforcing Stubs, 2005. [9] Rackwitz, R. Fiessler, B. "Structural reliability under combined random load sequences." Comp. & Struct. 9, 484-494,1978
9. Foschi, R.O.; Li, H.; FoIz, B, Yao, F. and Zhang, J. S. "RELAN: Software for Reliability Analysis". Department of Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4, 2000.