The Vacuum Interrupter Contact

IEEE Transactions on Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 25-32

  Slade, Paul G ^a  

^a WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ARCS, CIRCUIT BREAKING; ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

VACUUM INTERRUPTERS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 0020715334     PISSN: 01486411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCHMT.1984.1136331     Document Type: Article

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