Discussion on application of the Weibull distribution to electrical breakdown of insulating materials

IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-16

  Fabiani, Davide ^a   Simoni, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Breakdown; Electric strength; Weibull probability distribution

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC INSULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS ANALYSIS;

AGING; BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC STRENGTH; WEIBULL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 14544304457     PISSN: 10709878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDEI.2005.1394010     Document Type: Article

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