Analyzing artifacts in the time domain waveform to locate wire faults

IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 16-21

  Parkey, Charna ^a   Hughes, Craig ^b   Locken, Nicholas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Astronics DME Corporation   (United States)

^c AES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MEASUREMENT; CABLE LENGTH; CURRENT DETECTION; HIGH-VOLTAGES; INTERMITTENT FAULT; LOW ENERGIES; REAL WORLD DATA; SAFETY CONCERNS; TILT-ROTOR AIRCRAFTS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETERS; TIME-DOMAIN WAVEFORMS; WAVE FORMS; WEAPONS SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WIRE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865256889     PISSN: 10946969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIM.2012.6263978     Document Type: Article

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