The voltage instability in power system increases with power demand and over stressing of existing transmission lines nearly to their limits. A serious type of voltage instability is voltage collapse. In this paper comparative study of two techniques, namely Voltage Collapse Prediction Index (VCPI) and Sensitivity analysis to find voltage collapse vulnerability of bus in a power system is done....

Progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. Both General Services Administration (GSA) and United States Department of D...

In this paper, collapse behavior of simple and reinforced thin-walled channel- section beams, subjected to three- point bending, is investigated. Many simple channel- section beams of different geometry and some reinforced ones were tested, and their strengths after collapse were obtained thoroughly. Since the available theories in this area are complicated and little attention has been paid to...

In this study, the progressive collapse potential of seismically designed steel plate shear wall (SPSW) systems is investigated using the alternate path method, and their performances are compared with those of the conventional special moment frame (SMF) systems. Nonlinear static and dynamic analyses are conducted to follow the progressive collapse of the structures, and their ability of absorb...

The heart of the voltage stability problem is the voltage drop that occurs when the power system experiences a heavy load, and one serious type of voltage instability is voltage collapse. In this paper, a mechanism of the dynamic phenomenon of voltage collapse is presented from the physical point of view. It is shown that an iterative reaction of voltage drop between a dynamic load and the syst...

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to investigate the progressive collapse damage of prismatic thin walled metal columns with different regular cross sections, under the action of axial quasi-static and impact loads. The present work mainly focuses on implementation of some important factors which have been neglected in other studies. These factors include the effect of reducing impact...

To analyze the effect of stressed skin action of rigid plate covering on anti-collapse behavior of solar greenhouses under snow load, the numerical simulation on the overall collapse process of single skeleton structure and 6skeleton overall spatial structure with rigid plate covering were conducted on ANSYS. The collapse modes of solar greenhouses and snow load-displacement curves were obtaine...

The voltage stability constrained Available Transfer Capability (ATC) computations are obtained on IEEE 9-bus by running load flow until the voltage collapse point is achieved by enhancing the load in steps with constant power factor. These results are used to train the Neural Network by using Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFN) technique. The comparative results of convergence method, ...

Nigeria power system has been experiencing total or partial failures in recent times and voltage instability is a strong factor. The paper seeks to perform the stability analysis, based on static P-V plots, buses located around within South East zone of Nigeria. An injection group containing generators serve as source sink loads be monitored are created. assumed their min/max MW limits. load in...