Statistical evaluation of water tree lengths in XLPE cables at different temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 995-1006

  Al Arainy, A A ^a   Ahaideb, A A ^a   Qureshi, M I ^a   Malik, N H ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Accelerated aging; High voltage cable insulation; Log normal distribution; Monte Carlo simulation; Statistical distributions; Water treeing, temperature cycling; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC INSULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STRESSES; THERMAL CYCLING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ACCELERATED AGING; HIGH VOLTAGE CABLE INSULATION; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TEMPERATURE CYCLING; WATER TREEING;

UNDERGROUND CABLES;

EID: 12344277503     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2004.1387823     Document Type: Article

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