Recent concerns have witnessed that excitation due to a seismic event has caused
catastrophic destruction to mankind and its existing surroundings. Loss of livelihood and …

Immediate damage to electricity transmission systems after strong earthquakes can
significantly cause widespread power outages and impede maintenance activities. Whereas …

Wind-induced fatigue damage is a predominant factor eventuating in structural performance
degradation of transmission towers exposed to long-term environmental wind. Moreover …

Past major earthquakes have witnessed extensive pile-supported transmission tower-line
systems (PSTLs) failing, which highlights the great susceptibility of PSTLs to damage from …

Ultimate capacity evaluation is of vital importance for electricity transmission tower-line
systems, which are well recognized as the lifeline engineering in modern society …

Natural hazards such as earthquakes and typhoons pose a considerable threat to the power
transmission grid. In regions prone to both hazards, the overhead transmission infrastructure …

Transmission towers are critical components in electricity transmission systems, and their
damage or even collapse under earthquakes has drawn people's attention to the fragility …

Establishing suitable probabilistic seismic demand models (PSDMs) is a key part of the
probabilistic performance-based method. Intensity measures (IMs) are used as a connection …

Seismic fragility analysis is a powerful tool for evaluating structural seismic performance;
however, this approach involves various sources of uncertainty. Electricity transmission …

Transmission towers are critical components of electrical transmission systems, whose
damage and failure during earthquakes may cause extensive economic losses and …