The increasing penetration of non-synchronous, renewable energy in modern power systems displaces synchronous generation and affects transient stability. This is just one of the factors that has led to preventive curtailment of renewable energy sources in an increasing number of electrical grids. Transient stability constrained optimal power flow (OPF) techniques provide a tool to optimize the ...

Various types of Fault Current Limiters (FCLs) have been proposed and proven to offer numerous advantages with respect to transmission losses, voltage quality, and power system stability. However, FCL research has largely focused on only the FCL system, including optimization of components, efficiency improvement, and cost reduction. Conventional solutions to fault current problems, such as spl...

A dynamic stability criterion for elastic–plastic structures under near-fault ground motions is derived in closed form. A negative post-yield stiffness is treated in order to consider the P-delta effect. The double impulse is used as a substitute of the fling-step near-fault ground motion. Since only the free vibration appears under such double impulse, the energy approach plays a critical role...

In the present work, an online fault prognosis strategy is developed for proactive abnormality management. For online prognosis, the fault degradation process should be well revealed. To well capture the evolution process, the proposed approach includes three components, First, the stability factor is defined to identify those significant faulty variables that show degradation process. Second, ...

[1] Aseismic deformation transients can emerge as a natural outcome of the rate and state friction processes revealed in laboratory fault-sliding experiments. When that constitutive formulation is applied to model subduction earthquake sequences, transients can arise spontaneously for certain effective stress ( s) variations with depth. We show that if interstitial fluids are present and pore p...

Empirically based rate-and-state friction laws (RSFLs) have been proposed to model the dependence of friction forces with slip and time. The relevance of the RSFL for earthquake mechanics is that few constitutive parameters define critical conditions for fault stability (i.e., critical stiffness and frictional fault behavior). However, the RSFLs were determined from experiments conducted at sub...

Contingency screening for transient stability of large scale, strongly nonlinear, interconnected power systems is one of the most computationally challenging parts of Dynamic Security Assessment and requires huge resources to perform time-domain simulations-based assessment. To reduce computational cost of time-domain simulations, direct energy methods have been extensively developed. However, ...

The fault tolerant gait of legged robots in static walking is a gait which maintains its stability against a fault event preventing a leg from having the support state. In this paper, a fault tolerant quadruped gait is proposed for a hexapod traversing uneven terrain with forbidden regions, which do not offer viable footholds but can be stepped over. By comparing performance of straight-line mo...

The energies of the intrinsic stacking fault in 20 tetrahedrally coordinated crystals, determined by electron microscopy from the widths of extended dislocations, range from a few mJ/m to 300 mJ/m. The reduced stacking fault energy (RSFE: stacking fault energy per bond perpendicular to the fault plane) has been found to have correlations with the effective charge, the charge redistribution inde...

This paper proposes a parallel-resonance bridge type fault current limiter (PRBFCL) to augment the transient stability of a hybrid power system consisting of a photovoltaic (PV) power generation source, a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind energy system, and a synchronous generator (SG). The PRBFCL is designed such a way that it can provide sufficient damping characteristics to th...