Weibull analysis of contact resistance of silver/tungsten contacts in switching tests

ICREPEC 2007 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Reliability of Electrical Products and Electrical Contacts

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-45

  Leung, Chi H ^a  

^a AMI DODUCO Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit breaker; Contact resistance; Silver tungsten; Temperature rise; UL489

Indexed keywords

CONTACT RESISTANCE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; POWDER METALS; SILVER; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN POWDER METALLURGY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONTACT PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RISE; TUNGSTEN POWDERS; UL489; WEIBULL ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS;

EID: 67249140657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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