An Experimental Study on the Seismic Response of Electrical Substation Equipment Interconnected by Flexible Conductors

This paper investigates experimentally the dynamic interaction between components of electrical substation equipment interconnected by flexible (cable) conductors. Shake table tests were conducted on five different pairs of generic substation equipment specimens interconnected by three different flexible conductors with three different levels of slackness. No damage to any of the three flexible conductors was observed during all the seismic …