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Fast Load Distribution Calculation for Cylindrical Gears with Non-Involute Tooth Profiles

  • Karsten Fetzer,
  • Stefan Landler,
  • Jonas-Frederick Berger,
  • Michael Otto and
  • Karsten Stahl

31 December 2024

Advancements in manufacturing technology provide users with new opportunities for the design of gears. Special gearings with customized non-involute tooth profile geometries offer a promising alternative to conventional involute gears, addressing lim...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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  • Open Access
2,076 Views
22 Pages

29 March 2024

In order to solve the problem of an uneven load distribution in a double-input and double-output gearbox, based on the small-displacement Jacobi spin theory and considering the manufacturing and assembly errors of the gearbox, a Jacobi spin analysis...

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425 Views
34 Pages

13 August 2026

With the large-scale integration of distributed photovoltaic generation (PV) into modern distribution networks, the inherent stochasticity and volatility of renewable energy outputs have imposed non-negligible impacts on the secure and economic opera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Systems for Power Electronics, Smart Grids, and Renewable Energy Integration)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,753 Views
21 Pages

15 October 2024

The access of a high proportion of photovoltaic (PV) will change the energy structure of the distribution network (DN), resulting in a series of safety operation risks. This paper proposes a two-stage PV hosting capacity (PVHC) calculation model to a...

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  • Open Access
379 Views
17 Pages

Analytical Model and Method for Reliability Indices Calculation of Dual-Petal Distribution Networks Considering Load Transfer Zone Characteristics

  • Shurong Li,
  • Baofeng Tang,
  • Shujun Zhao,
  • Chen Wang and ,
  • Jiacheng Fo and
  • Fengzhang Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 July 2026

With the development of the socio-economic landscape and the increasing demand for urban power supply, user expectations for power supply reliability have risen significantly. To address this challenge, dual-petal distribution networks, characterized...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,610 Views
23 Pages

19 December 2019

To achieve climate goals, it is necessary to decarbonise the transport sector, which requires an immediate changeover to alternative power sources (e.g., battery powered vehicles). This change will lead to an increase in the demand for electrical ene...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bidirectional Energy Transfer Technologies for Vehicle-to-Grid and Other Vehicle-to-X Applications, and Solutions to Issues Caused by High Electric Vehicle Penetration Rates)
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2,154 Views
24 Pages

Numerical Study of Blast Load Acting on Typical Precast Segmental Reinforced Concrete Piers in Near-Field Explosions

  • Lu Liu,
  • Zhouhong Zong,
  • Yulin Shan,
  • Yao Yao and ,
  • Chenglin Li and
  • Yihao Cheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 October 2025

Explosions, including those from war weapons, terrorist attacks, etc., can lead to damage and overall collapse of bridges. However, there are no clear guidelines for anti-blast design and protective measures for bridges under blast loading in current...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Models for Civil Engineering)
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8 Citations
5,735 Views
19 Pages

26 January 2022

Mechanical equipment that will not be reused is defined as disposable machinery. Disposable harmonic drives (HDs) are commonly used in the field of aerospace and are sensitive to payloads. Reasonable calculation of the gear strength is essential for...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,183 Views
20 Pages

3 January 2025

Load-bearing capacity is critical in planetary threaded roller bearings (PTRBs). Machining errors cause uneven load distribution coefficients (LDC) among the rollers and the threaded teeth. The limited literature explores the influence of machining e...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
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7 Citations
3,790 Views
22 Pages

26 November 2024

Existing short-circuit calculation methods for distribution networks with renewable energy sources ignore the fluctuation of renewable sources and cannot reflect the impact of renewable sources and load changes on short-circuit current in real time a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art of Power Systems)
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2 Citations
1,826 Views
16 Pages

Power transformers are the most vital component in the electric grid. Their loss calculation is critical to transformer asset management and reflects on both operation and techno-economic assessment. Acknowledging the above, this paper presents an ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Power Electronics for Microgrids)
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16 Citations
5,008 Views
23 Pages

Assessment of Load Losses Caused by Harmonic Currents in Distribution Transformers Using the Transformer Loss Calculator Software

  • Vicente León-Martínez,
  • Elisa Peñalvo-López,
  • Joaquín Montañana-Romeu,
  • Clara Andrada-Monrós and
  • Laura Molina-Cañamero

Transformer load losses cause various adverse effects, such as derating, a decreased lifetime, and greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, the load losses caused by non-linear loads on distribution transformers are analyzed. For this study, the load...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deployment of Green Technologies for Sustainable Environment II)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,102 Views
20 Pages

5 October 2022

Articulated slab bridges have been widely used by transportation administration for short-to-medium span bridges because of their good economy, convenient construction, and environmental advantages, while the presence of shear keys increases the comp...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances on Structural Engineering, 2nd Volume)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,876 Views
27 Pages

24 August 2021

The increasing integration of renewable energies into the grid is calling for the expansion of the power transport capacities in the distribution system. Yet, the expansion of the grid could require long authorization procedures and cannot be always...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from ENERGYCON 2020 Conference)
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1 Citations
2,765 Views
37 Pages

In the context of the energy transition, the share of new loads such as charging infrastructure for electromobility and electric heat pumps as well as feed-ins such as photovoltaic systems will steadily increase. This results in an increased degree o...

(This article belongs to the Collection Optimal Operation and Planning of Smart Power Distribution Networks)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,504 Views
18 Pages

Load Calculation Method for Deep-Buried Layered Soft Rock Tunnel Based on Back-Analysis of Structural Deformation

  • Lixin Zhang,
  • Lijun Chen,
  • Jianxun Chen,
  • Yanbin Luo and ,
  • Huijie Guo,
  • Yang Zhai and
  • Pengkun Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 March 2024

After the excavation and unloading of deep-buried soft rock tunnels, support structures often experience deformation-related disasters such as concrete cracking, steel frame bending and twisting, and primary support instability under different forms...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,224 Views
20 Pages

31 January 2024

As a key component of the rolling mill, the four-row cylindrical roller bearing (FCRB) operates under complex working conditions of high speed, high temperature, and heavy load. Due to the lack of an effective temperature test scheme for rolling mill...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,681 Views
26 Pages

8 July 2023

The active distribution network has been fully developed because it can achieve efficient energy utilization through the effective control of distributed generation, electrical energy storage, and active loads. However, the research on the reliabilit...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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16 Citations
6,496 Views
19 Pages

A Fast Reactive Power Optimization in Distribution Network Based on Large Random Matrix Theory and Data Analysis

  • Wanxing Sheng,
  • Keyan Liu,
  • Hongyan Pei,
  • Yunhua Li and ,
  • Dongli Jia and
  • Yinglong Diao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 May 2016

In this paper, a reactive power optimization method based on historical data is investigated to solve the dynamic reactive power optimization problem in distribution network. In order to reflect the variation of loads, network loads are represented i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2015 International Conference on Inventions)
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606 Views
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29 January 2026

For ground with trapezoidal distributed subgrade reaction coefficients caused by natural sedimentation, a calculation model for pile(wall) deflection deformation under lateral loads was established. Based on the theory of power series solution of dif...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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6 Citations
2,579 Views
15 Pages

4 January 2023

Asphalt pavements are damaged by traffic load repetitions. Conventionally, the allowed number of load repetitions until pavement failure is calculated based on empirical transfer functions from deterministic pavement mechanical responses to performan...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
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3 Citations
1,764 Views
32 Pages

22 July 2025

Compared to spiral bevel gear drives with localized conjugation, line contact spiral bevel gears possess a significantly larger meshing area, theoretically achieving full tooth surface contact and substantially enhancing load capacity. To accurately...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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6 Citations
3,379 Views
18 Pages

Reliability Evaluation Method Considering Demand Response (DR) of Household Electrical Equipment in Distribution Networks

  • Hongzhong Chen,
  • Jun Tang,
  • Lei Sun,
  • Jiawei Zhou and ,
  • Xiaolei Wang and
  • Yeying Mao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 November 2019

The load characteristic of typical household electrical equipment is elaborately analyzed. Considering the electric vehicles’ (EVs’) charging behavior and air conditioning’s thermodynamic property, an electricity price-based demand...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Theoretical and Computational Energy Optimization Processes)
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2 Citations
2,375 Views
14 Pages

Calculation and Analysis of the Interval Power Flow for Distributed Energy System Based on Affine Algorithm

  • Bin Ouyang,
  • Lu Qu,
  • Qiyang Liu,
  • Baoye Tian and ,
  • Zhichang Yuan,
  • Peiqian Guo,
  • Hongyi Dai and
  • Weikun He
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 January 2021

Due to the coupling of different energy systems, optimization of different energy complementarities, and the realization of the highest overall energy utilization rate and environmental friendliness of the energy system, distributed energy system has...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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4 Citations
1,820 Views
21 Pages

This study presents a procedure applied to design problems for lateral loaded piles. Calculations for a rigid concrete pile in non-cohesive soil are conducted with the aim of estimating the allowable horizontal force using the methods of Broms and Pe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Foundations Engineering and Construction Materials—2nd Edition)
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7 Citations
2,686 Views
14 Pages

Experimental Study of Hot Spot Stress for Spatial CHS KK-Joints

  • Kang Wang,
  • Yuhang Wang,
  • Shan Gao,
  • Bin Wang and ,
  • Jinzhong Chen and
  • Pengjun Luo
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In offshore structures such as offshore wind turbine jacket foundations, prolonged exposure to wind and wave loads can lead to fatigue failure, especially at the joint connections. Currently, international codes primarily evaluate the fatigue perform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Analysis of Marine Structures)
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1 Citations
2,847 Views
14 Pages

5 January 2023

The study of the distribution form and calculation method of the earth pressure on the back wall of a pilot tunnel under a jacking reaction is very important to ensure the safety and smooth construction of the pipe jacking. Based on a metro station i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Modeling for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering)
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12 Citations
7,386 Views
23 Pages

Damage Zone of the Reinforced Concrete Beam under Rectangular Explosive Contact Explosions

  • Lijun Zhao,
  • Yongping Hao,
  • Qiuyang Wang,
  • Chaozhi Yang and ,
  • Huangwei Yao and
  • Xin Jia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper investigates the damaged area of a reinforced concrete beam under rectangular explosive contact explosion, through full-scale beam tests and numerical simulation. The calculation equation of beam surface load distribution based on equivale...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blast Loading and Blast Effect on Building Structures)
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2 Citations
2,712 Views
9 Pages

Queueing systems with random resource requirements, in which an arriving customer, in addition to a server, demands a random amount of resources from a shared resource pool, have proved useful to analyze wireless communication networks. The stationar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Queueing Methods in Reliability Theory and Information Technology Systems)
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1 Citations
2,770 Views
27 Pages

7 February 2024

In shear wall-frame systems, the foundation rotation that may occur under the shear walls changes the displacements and interstory drift ratios and changes the internal force distribution. This study investigates the effect of foundation rotations un...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
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8 Citations
2,153 Views
33 Pages

31 January 2025

The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) has introduced the concept of the Equivalent Design Wave (EDW) for the calculation of dynamic loads for structural analysis in the Common Structural Rule (CSR) for the design of bulk ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Structures: Fatigue Behavior, FEM Modeling and Design Best Practices)
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8 Citations
3,599 Views
35 Pages

Impact of Demand Response on Reliability Enhancement in Distribution Networks

  • Mohammad Reza Mansouri,
  • Mohsen Simab and
  • Bahman Bahmani Firouzi

29 November 2021

This paper presents an innovative instantaneous pricing scheme for optimal operation and improved reliability for distribution systems (DS). The purpose of the proposed program is to maximize the operator’s expected profit under various risk-ta...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
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21 Citations
6,168 Views
19 Pages

Optimization Model of Electric Vehicles Charging and Discharging Strategy Considering the Safe Operation of Distribution Network

  • Mengjiao Zou,
  • Ye Yang,
  • Mingguang Liu,
  • Wen Wang and ,
  • Heping Jia,
  • Xiaofeng Peng,
  • Shu Su and
  • Dunnan Liu
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Against the background of carbon neutrality, the power dispatching operation mode has undergone great changes. It not only gradually realizes the coordinated control of source–grid–load–storage, but also strives to realize the multi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modern Charging Techniques for Electrical Vehicles)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,343 Views
16 Pages

In aerospace technology, angular contact ball bearings are required to exhibit extremely high operational precision, necessitating real-time monitoring of their wear status to conduct pre-failure analysis. Although extensive studies have been conduct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tribological Characteristics of Bearing System, 3rd Edition)
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19 Citations
5,642 Views
18 Pages

Investigation and Optimization of Load Distribution for Tandem Cold Steel Strip Rolling Process

  • Xin Jin,
  • Changsheng Li,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Xiaogang Li and ,
  • Yongguang Xiang and
  • Tian Gu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 May 2020

In order to improve the cold rolled steel strip flatness, the load distribution of the tandem cold rolling process is subject to investigation and optimization. The strip deformation resistance model is corrected by an artificial neural network that...

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4 Citations
2,774 Views
21 Pages

12 November 2022

One of the most important factors influencing the study of the tribological behaviour of a rolling bearing is the calculation of the loads transmitted by individual rolling elements of the bearing. However, the calculation of the internal load distri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tribological Characteristics of Bearing System)
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8 Citations
5,353 Views
15 Pages

24 March 2017

The intermittency and variability of permeated distributed generators (DGs) could cause many critical security and economy risks to distribution systems. This paper applied a certain mathematical distribution to imitate the output variability and unc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainability: Modeling and Applications)
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5 Citations
3,163 Views
31 Pages

8 September 2021

The increasing share of distributed energy resources aggravates voltage limit compliance within the electric power system. Nowadays, various inverter-based Volt/var control strategies, such as cosφ(P) and Q(U), for low voltage feeder connected L(U) l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future of Smart Grid and Renewable Energy)
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6 Citations
5,001 Views
15 Pages

17 January 2022

The large differences in the load peak and valley of rural distribution networks always bring severe problems to system planners and operators. Given this issue, this paper deals with the hot-spot temperature (HST) of the transformer and its overload...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Theory with Applications in Intelligent Machines)
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1,868 Views
13 Pages

11 December 2024

Axle load data and traffic survey data are both important outputs of highway sensors. This study targets highways and ordinary national and provincial highways, seeking to calculate axle load spectrum and equivalent axle times across the network. The...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems with Connected Vehicle, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things Technologies)
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445 Views
22 Pages

29 June 2026

With the gradual improvement of residential electricity reliability, the lower design strength of the distribution network makes it more prone to large-scale power outages in resisting natural disasters. Among them, the cold load start-up effect will...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Analysis and Optimal Control of the Power Conversion Systems)
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1,312 Views
18 Pages

21 October 2025

In suspension bridges employing spatial cables, the main cables undergo torsion during the construction process. Clarifying the distribution pattern of the main cable torsional angle can guide the positioning and installation of cable clamps and miti...

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1 Citations
1,657 Views
12 Pages

23 February 2024

In rural locations, the application of clean heating technologies requires an appropriate design heating load. However, the variation characteristics of indoor temperatures in rural residential buildings are rarely taken into consideration by traditi...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
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12 Citations
3,248 Views
14 Pages

Continuous Line Loss Calculation Method for Distribution Network Considering Collected Data of Different Densities

  • Yuying Li,
  • Xiping Ma,
  • Chen Liang,
  • Yaxin Li and ,
  • Zhou Cai and
  • Tong Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 July 2022

In order to find the causes of statistical line loss abnormalities and propose better loss reduction strategies, it is necessary to improve the accuracy of theoretical line loss calculations. Since Distributed Generation (DG) access to the distributi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Operation and Control of Energy System and Power System)
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4 Citations
3,310 Views
16 Pages

Wind-Induced Vibration Coefficient of Landscape Tower with Curved and Twisted Columns and Spiral Beams Based on Wind Tunnel Test Data

  • Shuang Zhao,
  • Chengtao Zhang,
  • Jiahao Yue,
  • Zhitao Yan and ,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Bin Zhang and
  • Bowei Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 October 2022

The complex aerodynamic shape and structural form affect the wind-induced vibration coefficient β of landscape towers with a twisted column and spiral beam (short for LTs). To clarify the β distribution characteristics, evaluate the applica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Nonlinear Analysis of Tall Buildings, High-Rise Structures, Flexible Bridges and Transmission Lines)
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2 Citations
1,312 Views
14 Pages

This paper proposes an optimization strategy for Feeder Terminal Unit (FTU) configuration in distribution networks, accounting for the influence of Distributed Generation (DG). Firstly, the impact of different FTU configurations on load interruption...

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4 Citations
1,722 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2022

Rock is a widely used construction material; its mechanical properties change due to the influence of different load speed. In this study, the split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) was used to test the dynamic properties of rock samples by loading four...

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9 Citations
3,192 Views
15 Pages

On the Determination of Meshed Distribution Networks Operational Points after Reinforcement

  • Vasiliki Vita,
  • Stavros Lazarou,
  • Christos A. Christodoulou and
  • George Seritan

25 August 2019

This paper proposes a calculation algorithm that creates operational points and evaluates the performance of distribution lines after reinforcement. The operational points of the line are probabilistically determined using Monte Carlo simulation for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementation of Vehicular Cloud Networks Using Wireless Sensor)
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17 Citations
7,853 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2022

Negative skin friction (NSF) of piles in recent filling or soft area is an important effect factor of pile bearing capacity. Since field experiments on NSF are time consuming and it is difficult to large surcharge loads in experimental research, a un...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances on Structural Engineering)
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5 Citations
3,133 Views
19 Pages

14 June 2018

With the large amount of distributed generation in use, the structure of the distribution system is increasingly complex. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a method to improve load reliability. Based on the reliability model of distributed gene...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)

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