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

Saransh Dikshit, Ian Dobson and Alice Alipour

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2024, vol. 250, issue C

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Cascading failure risk; Probability; Transmission tower; Structural failure; Wind; Resilience engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2024.110304

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