Electrical degradation and breakdown in polymers by L.A. Dissado
by L.A. Dissado and J.C. Fothergill Edited by G.C. Stevens
ISBN 10 ?0863411967
ISBN 13 ? 9780863411960
The study of electrical breakdown is not a trivial pursuit. Whilst the twentieth
century has seen great advances in the science of breakdown and prebreakdown
processes there is still much to be understood. F. W. Peek?s
book, ?Dielectric Phenomena in High-Voltage Engineering? (McGraw Hill
Inc.) published in 1920 described engineering observations of breakdown
in commercially-used materials and systems but very little was understood
of the breakdown mechanisms. S. Whitehead?s two books on dielectric
breakdown published in 1932 and 1951* show the considerable advances
made during this period. He noted that it was not until engineers and
theoretical scientists cooperated closely that the various, fundamentally
different, types of breakdown could be classified. J. J. O?Dwyer?s two bookst
published in 1964 and 1973 took the analytical models of both conduction
and breakdown in solid dielectrics considerably further.
