This book addresses the problem of finding ampacities of underground cables. Although standard methods for solving this problem provide satisfactory results, however, these results are not always optimal and algorithms are not always convergent. This book takes these standard methods as a starting point and formulates the ampacity calculations as an optimization problem. The solution to this optimization problem gives the required ampacities, and is determined by utilizing the barrier method algorithm. This algorithm is implemented in FORTRAN-77 and used to obtain ampacity solutions for...