Electrical stress and failure mechanism of the winding insulation in PWM-inverter-fed low-voltage induction motors

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 396-402

  Kaufhold, Martin ^a   Auinger, Herbert ^a   Berth, Matthias ^b   Speck, Joachim ^c   Eberhardt, Martin ^c  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC MACHINE INSULATION; ELECTRIC WINDINGS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; POWER CONVERTERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ELECTRICAL STRESS; IMPULSE VOLTAGE; PHASE INSULATION; WINDING INSULATION;

INDUCTION MOTORS;

EID: 0033898972     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.836355     Document Type: Article

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