TY - JFULL AU - Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad and Saeed Afshar PY - 2009/2/ TI - Reliability Analysis in Electrical Distribution System Considering Preventive Maintenance Applications on Circuit Breakers T2 - International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering SP - 58 EP - 63 VL - 3 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11508 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 25, 2009 N2 - This paper presents the results of a preventive maintenance application-based study and modeling of failure rates in breakers of electrical distribution systems. This is a critical issue in the reliability assessment of a system. In the analysis conducted in this paper, the impacts of failure rate variations caused by a preventive maintenance are examined. This is considered as a part of a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) application program. A number of load point reliability indices is derived using the mathematical model of the failure rate, which is established using the observed data in a distribution system. ER -