microgrid presents an efficient and novel solution for integrating many new energy generating resources with traditional distribution networks. having an appropriate protective scheme is a fundamental challenge in achieving microgrid plans. it is proven that traditional protective plans are not efficient for protecting microgrid, since the network is dynamic and the level of fault current chang...

Faults and damage in oil-filled power transformers has a devastating effect on the overall reliability of electrical power systems. Several factors, especially electrical and thermal stresses age the transformer and subject them to incipient faults. These faults, if left undetected will cause deterioration and eventually lead to failure of the transformer [1]. The presence of faults such as arc...

Physical faults include bridging faults, break (open) faults, transistor stuck-on and transistor stuck-off. Compared to traditional gate-level stuck-at faults, physical faults more closely represent realistic faults appearing at the gate level and transistor level. Analytical modelling for such faults, used for design and testability, is still a new and emerging area. Undetectable bridging faul...

Disturbances in the form of oscillations are usually originated in process plants due to various faults such as sensor faults, valve faults, process faults and controller tuning faults. Many of these faults can be represented as nonlinearities. Faults in the form of nonlinearities may produce oscillations with a fundamental frequency and its harmonics. This study presents a novel method based o...

Nowadays, faults and failures are increasing especially in complex systems such as Network-on-Chip (NoC) based Systems-on-a-Chip due to the increasing susceptibility and decreasing feature sizes. On the other hand, fault-tolerant routing algorithms have an evident effect on tolerating permanent faults and improving the reliability of a Network-on-Chip based system. This paper presents reliabili...

Single crystals and polycrystalline diamond films of several thicknesses were deposited using oxygen/acetylene combustion flame technique. The substrate used was pure polycrystalline molybdenum subjected to mechanical polishing. Quality and microstructural characteristic of diamond produced were investigated using X-Ray diffraction, Raman Spectroscopy, Scanning and Transmission Electron Microsc...