Significance of defects inside in-service aged winding insulations

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-14

  Sumereder, Christof ^a   Weiers, Tilman ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dielectric breakdown; Electrical insulation; Insulation life; Machine windings; Mica insulation

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC MACHINE INSULATION; MICA; STATORS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC STRESS; GENERATOR BARS; VOLTAGE-ENDURANCE TESTS;

MACHINE WINDINGS;

EID: 40849111873     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2006.888037     Document Type: Article

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