Reliability evaluation of three-level inverters

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1555-1560

  Ding, Yi ^a   Loh, Poh Chiang ^a   Tan, Kuan Khoon ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Gao, Feng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON GROUND; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; INVERTER TOPOLOGIES; MATHEMATICAL INDEXES; MULTI STATE; QUALITATIVE REASONING; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; RELIABILITY EVALUATION; RELIABILITY INDEX; THREE-LEVEL INVERTERS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; OFFSHORE PIPELINES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY;

POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 77952212239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2010.5433438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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