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Cascading structural failures of towers in an electric power transmission line due to straight line winds

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  • Dikshit, Saransh
  • Dobson, Ian
  • Alipour, Alice

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The bulk electricity that powers our society flows along high voltage transmission lines that are conducting cables hung with insulators from a series of transmission towers. High winds can damage these structures and the loss of the transmission line sometimes causes a blackout. When a tower structurally fails, the adjacent towers have unbalanced load, and are more likely to fail, so there is a cascading effect by which tower failures can lead to further tower failures.

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  • Dikshit, Saransh & Dobson, Ian & Alipour, Alice, 2024. "Cascading structural failures of towers in an electric power transmission line due to straight line winds," Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Elsevier, vol. 250(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:reensy:v:250:y:2024:i:c:s0951832024003764
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2024.110304
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