Study of the influence of the walls' nature on the behaviour of a low-voltage arc breaker by means of an inverse method

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-127

  Toumazet, Jean Pierre ^a   Velleaud, Gérard ^a   Brdys, Corinne ^a   Servant, Sophie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^b Centre de Recherches A2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBES; CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRODYNAMICS;

ARC DYNAMIC; INDUCTION MEASUREMENT; INVERSE DIAGNOSTIC METHOD; INVERSE DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; LOW VOLTAGE ARC BREAKERS;

CIRCUIT BREAKING ARCS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 0032590272     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/32/2/008     Document Type: Article

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