{"title":"A model of the electrical breakdown process due to electrical treeing growth","authors":"R. Bozzo, F. Guastavino, D. Tommasini","doi":"10.1109/ICSD.1989.69231","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The authors develop a mathematical model that can describe the electrical breakdown due to electrical treeing growth in point-plane electrode specimens of thermoplastic polymers subjected to AC voltage ramps. The damage due to the tree growth is modeled as a conductive sphere, allowing an easy computation of the geometrical field in front of it. The breakdown voltage V/sub BD/, the radius of the sphere R/sub b/, and the electric field on the sphere AE/sub b/ are related by means of the simple equation V/sub BD/(D)=AE/sub b/*R/sub b/(D), where D is the interelectrode gap. The model has been verified experimentally.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":184126,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Conduction and Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Conduction and Breakdown in Solid Dielectrics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSD.1989.69231","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The authors develop a mathematical model that can describe the electrical breakdown due to electrical treeing growth in point-plane electrode specimens of thermoplastic polymers subjected to AC voltage ramps. The damage due to the tree growth is modeled as a conductive sphere, allowing an easy computation of the geometrical field in front of it. The breakdown voltage V/sub BD/, the radius of the sphere R/sub b/, and the electric field on the sphere AE/sub b/ are related by means of the simple equation V/sub BD/(D)=AE/sub b/*R/sub b/(D), where D is the interelectrode gap. The model has been verified experimentally.<>