Determination of threshold electric field EC of soil under high impulse currents

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 2108-2113

  Nor, N Mohamad ^a   Haddad, A ^b   Griffiths, H ^b  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impulse polarity; Soil electrical properties; Soil ionization; Soil resistivity; Threshold electric field

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRODES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IONIZATION; SAND; SOILS;

IMPULSE POLARITY; SOIL ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; SOIL IONIZATION; SOIL RESISTIVITY; THRESHOLD ELECTRIC FIELD;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 23944484695     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2005.848761     Document Type: Article

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