Electro-mechanical modelling of multilayer contacts in electrical connectors

Electrical Contacts, Proceedings of the Annual Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Ossart, F ^a   Noel S ^a   Alamarguy, D ^a   Correia, S ^b   Gendre, P ^b  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b PEM Siaugues Saint Romain ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Constriction resistance; Electric contact; Finite element modelling; Multilayer contact; Tin coating

Indexed keywords

CONTACT RESISTANCE; COPPER ALLOYS; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MULTILAYERS; TIN PLATE;

CONSTRICTION RESISTANCE; MULTILAYER CONTACTS; TIN COATING;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

EID: 38549092486     PISSN: 03614395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HOLM.2007.4318187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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