CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- APPLICATIONS OF FAULT LOCATION TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- 3. PROPERTIES OF TRANSMISSION LINE FAULTS -- 4. FAULT LOCATION ESTIMATION BENEFITS -- 4.1. Time and Effort Saving -- 4.2. Improving the System Availability -- 4.3. Assisting Future Maintenance Plans -- 4.4. Economic Factor -- 5. CLASSIFICATION OF DEVELOPED FAULT LOCATION METHODS -- 5.1. Travelling Wave-Based Fault Locators -- 5.2. Impedance Measurement-Based Fault Locators -- 5.3. Non-Conventional Methods -- 5.4. Requirements for Fault Location Process -- 6. IMPEDANCE -BASED ALGORITHMS USING DOUBLE END DATA -- 7. IMPEDANCE -BASED ALGORITHMS USING SINGLE END DATA -- 8. NON-CONVENTIONAL FAULT LOCATION SCHEMES -- 9. FAULT LOCATION COMPUTATION IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS -- 10. TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES AND CHALLENGES FOR FAULT LOCATORS -- 11. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- CURRENT TRANSMISSION FIBERS AND R&DS ON FUTURE TRANSMISSION FIBERS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CURRENT TERRESTRIAL FIBERS -- 2.1. Overall Situation -- 2.2. NZ-DSFs vs. SMFs for the Terrestrial Systems -- 2.3. Development of MDF -- 2.4. New Challenges with SMFs -- 3. CURRENT SUBMARINE FIBERS -- 3.1. Overall Situation -- 3.2. Using NZ-DSFs -- 3.3. SMF+RDF (DMLs) vs. NZ-DSFs for Submarine Systems -- 3.3.1. SMF+RDF -- 3.3.2. EA-SMF -- 3.3.3. ED-RDF -- 3.4. Development of MD-DMLs (P-MDF+N-MDF) -- 3.4.1. Initial MDFs -- 3.4.2. Improved MDFs -- 3.5. New Challenges with DMLs -- 4. FUTURE TRANSMISSION FIBER -- 4.1. Overall Situations -- 4.2. R&D on Low Non-Linear Fibers -- 4.2.1. SMF with a large fiber diameter -- 4.2.2. Holey fibers -- 4.2.3. Using Photonic Bandgap Fiber -- 4.3. R&D on Wide-Band Transmission Fibers -- 4.4. R&D on Multi-Core Fibers -- 4.4.1. Background -- 4.4.2. Fiber design -- 4.4.3. Fiber fabrication.

5. SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN TRANSMISSION POLE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS OF THE POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM -- PREVIOUS STUDIES ON TRANSMISSION STRUCTURES -- FREE VIBRATION OF THE POWER TRANSMISSION POLE LINES -- Free Vibration of Single Poles -- F Free Vibration of Pole-C Cable Coup pled Systems s -- BLAST EFFECTS ON POWER TRANSMISSION POLES -- B Blast Induce ed Ground V Vibrations -- B Blast data coll lection -- R Response spec ctra developm ment -- Transmission Pole Responses under Blast Loads -- B Blast Limit D Developmen nt for Power r Transmiss sion Poles -- Blast Design Considerations for Power Transmission Structure Protection -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINE APPROACH TO NON-ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CONSTRUCTION OF ELECTRO-MECHANICAL ANALOGIES SYSTEMS BY MEANS OF DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS -- 2.1. System of Electro - Mechanical Analogies -- 2.2. Method of Construction of the Electro-Mechanical Analogies Systems -- Firestone's system of electro-mechanical analogies for uniaxial problems with linearly distributed parameters, -- 3. ONE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC STATE OF STRAIN OF POROELASTIC MEDIUM IN COMPARISON WITH ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION -- 3.1. Porous Vibroisolator under Harmonic Loading -- 4. ELECTRO-ELASTO-THERMO-DIFFUSIVE ANALOGIES -- 4.1. General Solutions for Steady-State Sinusoidal Conditions -- 4.2. Heat and Moisture Transfer in a two-Layer External Building wall During One Year -- 5. ELASTO-ELECTRIC LONGITUDINAL HARMONIC WAVES IN NORMAL AND OSTEOPOROTIC LONG BONES VIEWED AS TRANSMISSION LINES -- 5.1. Equations of the Biot Theory for a Long Bone Shaft Transmission Line under a Longitudinal Harmonic Load.

5.2. Solution of Mechanic State Equation for Long Bone Shaft Transmission Line -- 5.3. Electric Potentials Associated with Propagation of Harmonic Longitudinal Acousto-Electric Waves in Porous Long Bones -- REFERENCES -- THE EFFECTS OF PRIORITY SERVICE ON ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION: THE CASE OF INTERCONNECTION INVESTMENT* -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROPERTY OF PRIORITY SERVICE -- 3. THE MODEL -- 3.1. Assumptions -- 3.2. Model Specifications -- 3.2.1. Primal problem for interconnection investment and operation -- 3.2.2. Dual problem for priority service prices -- 4. AN APPLICATION -- 4.1. Data Description -- 4.2. Computational Results -- 4.3. Effects of Investment Costs -- 5. REGULATORY IMPACTS ON PRIORITY SERVICE -- 5.1. Alternative Forms of Regulating the Transmission Utility -- 5.2. A Comparison of Alternative Schemes of Regulation -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- MODELLING OF STRAIN ACCUMULATION PROCESS IN CYCLICALLY LOADED TRANSMISSION BELTS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TIME-DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR OF POLYMERS -- 2.1. Viscoelastic Functions -- 2.2. Material Functions Expressed in Terms of Discrete Retardation Spectra -- 3. MODELLING OF THE TIME-DEPENDENT STRAIN ACCUMULATION PROCESS IN TRANSMISSION BELTS -- 3.1. Loading Conditions -- 3.2. Time-Dependent Response and Strain Accumulation Process -- STRAIN ACCUMULATION ANALYSIS -- 4.1. Strain Accumulation Process in Material Modelled with Single Spectrum Line -- 4.2. Strain Accumulation Process in Materials Modelled With Complex Spectrum Distributions -- 4.2.1. The effect of material spectrum distribution on strain accumulation regarding geometry -- 4.2.2. The effect of material spectrum distribution on strain accumulation regarding angular velocity and number of loading cycles -- PROPOSED DESIGNING CRITERION FOR DURABILITY PREDICTION.

DAB - "DURABILITY ANALISYS OF BELTS" SOFTWARE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- STEPPED TRANSMISSION LINE AND IMPEDANCE MATCHING -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PRINCIPLE -- EXAMPLE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- TO THE THEORY OF MAGNETICALLY INSULATED TRANSMISSION LINES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PARAMETERS OF THE FORWARD GOING MITL WAVE -- a) Conservation of Energy -- b) Conservation of Axial Momentum -- c) Results -- d) Conversion of the Current on MITL Wave Reflection from a Load -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- PERIODIC REGIMES FOR DISTORTIONLESS LOSSY TRANSMISSION LINES TERMINATED BY PARALLEL CONNECTED RCL-LOADS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. FORMULATION OF THE BASIC PROBLEM -- 3. REDUCING THE MIXED PROBLEM FOR THE TRANSMISSION LINE SYSTEM TO AN INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM FOR A NONLINEAR NEUTRAL SYSTEM -- 4. AN EXISTENCE OF PERIODIC SOLUTIONS FOR THE NEUTRAL SYSTEM WITH POLYNOMIAL NONLINEARITIES -- REFERENCES -- SPATIAL AUCTION MARKETS WITH UNIQUE CONSUMER PRICE∗ -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Statement of the Problem -- 3. Relaxed Formulation -- 4. Solution of the Reduced AuctionMarket Problem -- 5. Solution Finding for the Relaxed Formulation -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- TESTING OF CMOS DRIVEN VLSI INTERCONNECTS -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INTERCONNECTS -- 2.1. Interconnect Parasitics -- 2.2. Interconnect Models -- 2.3. Full Wave and ETL Model -- 3. TESTING -- 3.1. Importance of Testing -- 3.2. Review of Testing Techniques -- 3.3. Built-in Self-Test -- 3.3.1. Advantages of BIST and its Different Approaches -- 3.3.2. BIST Economics -- 4. FAULTS -- 5. TESTING OF INTERCONNECTS -- 6. FUTURE CHALLENGES -- 7. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.