Progress in step and touch voltage equations of ANSI/IEEE Std 80 - Historical perspective

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 762-767

  Sverak, Jiri George ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b DECON Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ac substation; Grounding grid; Mathematical model; Safety criteria; Simplification

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC SUBSTATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STANDARDS;

GROUNDING GRIDS;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING;

EID: 0032123904     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/61.686972     Document Type: Review

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