Achieved reliability of the North American design approaches for transmission overhead structures

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bhuyan, Gouri ^a   Li, Hong ^b  

^a POWERTECH LABS INC   (Canada)

^b CIandAET Department

Author keywords

CSA C22.3; Deterministic; Lattice steel tower; NESC C2; Reliability index; Reliability based design; Steel pole; Structural reliability; Transmission structures; Wood H frame

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SHIFT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; IRON; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROBABILITY; STANDARDS; STEEL; WOODEN BUILDINGS;

APPLIED (CO); BALANCED LOADS; DESIGN APPROACHES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NATIONAL ELECTRICAL SAFETY CODE (NESC); POWER SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN (RBD); STEEL LATTICE; WOOD STRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS;

EID: 46149124098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2006.360416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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