electrical breakdown

Tracking is an electrical breakdown on the surface of an insulating material.

The oil replaces the air in any spaces which must support significant voltage without electrical breakdown.

The electrical breakdown of dielectrics, which resemble cracks and tears.

The trains were initially used sparingly to avoid electrical breakdowns.

The electrical breakdown of air helps ozone to form, and this has a distinctive metallic smell.

Such activity eventually causes an electrical breakdown of their membranes and this is called 'cell fusion'.

E1 causes most of its damage by causing electrical breakdown voltages to be exceeded.

Due to resonance, a very high voltage can develop across the secondary, until it is limited by some process such as electrical breakdown.

He upbraids himself for not doing something, and speculates wildly on the consequences of another electrical breakdown.

The electrical breakdown strength should be high.

The achievable kinetic energy for particles in these devices is limited by electrical breakdown.

This helps prevent corona formation and subsequent electrical breakdown under load.

'So, two electrical breakdowns, if you could call them that, and a third in the process of being investigated.'

When subjected to a high enough voltage, insulators suffer from the phenomenon of electrical breakdown.

The term electrical breakdown or electric breakdown has several similar but distinctly different meanings.

Mechanical and electrical breakdowns in aircraft were common.

Electrical breakdown and insulation testing of high voltage equipment and cables.

Beyond this point, electrical breakdown occurs and an electric arc causes flashover between the charged parts.

Standard property coverages typically exclude perils of mechanical and electrical breakdown.

A possibility to enhance the electrical breakdown strength is to prestretch the elastomer film mechanically.

Cosmic rays have been implicated in the triggering of electrical breakdown in lightning.

Lichtenberg figures are now known to occur on, or within, solids, liquids, and gases during Electrical breakdown.

The simultaneous failure of both recorders would strengthen the suspicion that the jet suffered a devastating electrical breakdown.

The second machine (second axis) is more complicated and, when first completed in 2003, was found to be unusable due to electrical breakdown.

"No, it wasn't an electrical breakdown.