- Author
- Mitchell, J. W.
- Title
- Power Lines and Catastrophic Wildland Fire in Southern California.
- Coporate
- M-bar Technologies and Consulting, LLC, Ramona, CA
- Book or Conf
- Fire and Materials 2009. 11th International Conference. Conference Papers. Proceedings. Organised by Interscience Communications Limited. January 26-28, 2009, Interscience Communications Limited, London, England, San Francisco, CA, 225-240 p., 2009
- Keywords
- wildland fires | power lines | ignition | wind effects | fire spread | wind velocity | failure | wind direction | size distribution | fatigue (materials) | ignition source | velocity | forest fires
- Identifiers
- Southern California, October 2007; "Santa Ana" Foehn winds; California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ("Cal Fire"); size distribution of power line fires in Southern California; Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS); ignitions near weather stations, 1998-2008; high-wind conditions; outages vs. wind speed; fire size vs. wind gust speed; SDG&E power line fires; deformation of flexible objects under wind stress; elastic extension and conductor contact; line slap; fatigue failures and wind speed