Application of common cause analysis for assessment of reliability of power systems

2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, PMAPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 575-580

  Čepin, Marko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Common cause analysis; Power systems; Reliability; Safety

Indexed keywords

COMMON CAUSE ANALYSIS; COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; COUPLING MECHANISM; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; POWER SYSTEMS; SAFETY; STATIC CONDITIONS;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM PROTECTION; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 77956451050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PMAPS.2010.5528950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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