Electrical Degradation and Breakdown in Polymers

L. A. Dissado and J. C. Fothergill
Published by Peter Peregrinus for the IEE
1992, 601 pp, ISBN 0 86341 196 7

The book is a resource book for theory, information and techniques for the practising insulation engineering. The book is divided into 5 parts:

1. An introduction to polymers and electrical breakdown
2. Treeing in polymers - covering both water-tree degradation and electrical-tree degradation - ending with a chapter on routes to tree inhibition.
3. Five chapters on the physics of electrical breakdown covering charge injection and transport, thermal, electronic and electromechanical breakdown, and partial discharges
4. The statistical features of breakdown with Weibull and fractal analyses
5. Engineering considerations for breakdown testing and degradation assessment.

The book correlates work from almost a 1000 reports and papers.

Available from all good bookshops!

John Fothergill

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