Presented herein is a methodology for the seismic assessment of the reliability of urban water distribution networks (UWDN) based on general seismic assessment standards, as per the American Lifelines Alliance (ALA) guidelines, and localized historical records of critical risk-of-failure metrics...

This paper describes a generic method for the development and design of a TPM programme that is best suited to the organisation's needs. The research starts with an extensive review of literature on Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), which led to the formation of a model for the introduction of...

This paper describes a generic method for the development and design of a TPM programme that is best suited to the organisation's needs. The research starts with an extensive review of literature on Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), which led to the formation of a model for the introduction of...

This paper presents a composite generation and transmission system reliability evaluation method incorporating multiple correlations among wind speeds, insolations and bus/regional load curves. The proposed method can accurately model any probability distribution and all the correlations between...

Quantitative reliability assessment of photovoltaic (PV) power system is an indispensable technology to assure reliable and utility-friendly integration of PV generation. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art technologies for evaluating the reliability of large-scale PV systems and the effect...

In this paper, a new methodology for Transmission Expansion Planning (TEP) in deregulated electricity market is presented. The proposed TEP is associated with Reactive Power Planning (RPP), reliability assessment and also consideration of wind and load uncertainties. The proposed planning aims...

This paper looks at the comparative reliability of different methodological variants of the conjoint analysis procedure. It differs from previous studies in that it looks at three methods of data collection (Full Profile, Trade-off Matrices, and Paired Comparison) and two levels of a key...

One disadvantage of vector autoregressive (VAR) models is that they require time series to have equal lengths in the estimation process. This requirement induces a loss of potentially valuable information coming from time series that are longer than others. The issue is particularly evident in...