Towards 500 kV power transformers damaged in the 2022 Luding earthquake: field investigation, failure analysis and seismic retrofitting

W Zhu, Q Xie, X Liu, B Mao, Z Xue - Natural Hazards, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Ms 6.8 Luding earthquake struck Sichuan province in China on September 5,
2022, triggering many failures of electrical installations in power grids. All high-voltage …

[HTML][HTML] Seismic testing and fragility analysis considering material strength uncertainty of 1100 kV GFRP composite power transformer bushing

W Zhu, Q Xie, J Lu - Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Nowadays glass-fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite insulators are widely employed
in electrical equipment in substations. However, there is a scarcity of reports on seismic …

A probabilistic framework to evaluate seismic resilience of substations based on three-stage uncertainty

X Liu, Q Xie - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrical substation systems exhibit vulnerability after an earthquake. It results in significant
economic losses because of the uncertainty of the functional state and recovery process. To …

Refined seismic fragility curves of substation equipment considering ground motion classifications

W Zhu, X Bian, Q Xie - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Seismic fragility of substation equipment is vital in risk analyses, as well as post-earthquake
prediction of failure probabilities of multiple equipment for deciding the inspection order …

Two-Stage Distributionally Robust Optimization for Infrastructure Resilience Enhancement: A Case Study of 220 kV Power Substations Under Earthquake Disasters

C Zou, K Wang, T Xiahou, D Cao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power substations are widely used as crucial components of power grids but also exposed
to a high risk of earthquakes. Enhancing the resilience of power substations plays an …

Seismic Fragility and Reliability of Base-Isolated Structures with Regard to Superstructure Ductility and Isolator Displacement Considering Degrading Behavior

A Delaviz, S Yaghmaei-Sabegh… - Journal of Earthquake …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present study investigates the effects of the degradation of mechanical properties
(pinching, stiffness degradation, and strength degradation) in load-deformation relationship …

Seismic vulnerability assessment of electrical substation system based on the hybrid fragility functions and Bayesian network

X Fu, DER Guo, G Li, HN Li, DJ Zhu - Earthquake Engineering & … - Wiley Online Library
Substations function as neural hubs within power systems and play pivotal roles in the
aggregation, transformation, and distribution of electrical energy. Previous experiences …