Filamentary electromechanical breakdown
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Electrical Insulation
- Vol. 26 (6) , 1124-1129
- https://doi.org/10.1109/14.108149
Abstract
A breakdown mechanism is proposed in which a filamentary-shaped crack propagates through a dielectric, releasing both electrostatic energy and electromechanical strain energy stored in the material due to the applied electric field. The mechanism predicts a breakdown strength which is proportional to the fourth root of Young's modulus and a time to breakdown comparable with that taken for a sound wave to cross the dielectric ( approximately=0.1 mu s in 25 mu m thick polyethene films). Analysis of previously unexplained results of M. Hikita et al. (1985) on thin films of polyethylene yields good agreement with the proposed mechanism and a filament radius which is comparable to the gross morphological features of the dielectric.Keywords
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