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A Software Tool for Assessing Transmission Line Vulnerability Based on a Monte Carlo Simulation

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Severe wind hazard poses a great risk to high voltage transmission lines consisting of various types of towers such as suspension, tension, and terminal towers. Geoscience Australia (GA) has developed a software called WISTL (Wind Impact Simulation on Transmission Lines) based on a Monte Carlo simulation to assess the damage likelihood to transmission lines. It simulates two different damage mechanisms: damage due to direct wind assuming towers are isolated, and cascading failure mechanism where damage is induced by the collapse of adjacent towers. It produces a damage probability for each damage state by tower and probability distribution of number of damaged towers by line. Presented at the 2021 Conference on Disaster Mitigation Technology for Smart Infrastructure (DMTSI 2021)

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Title A Software Tool for Assessing Transmission Line Vulnerability Based on a Monte Carlo Simulation
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/c18ed325-d28b-49fe-aae0-8e2c3d6742d3
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "A Software Tool for Assessing Transmission Line Vulnerability Based on a Monte Carlo Simulation". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/a-software-tool-for-assessing-transmission-line-vulnerability-based-on-a-monte-carlo-simulation