Modifications to the von Laue statistical distribution of the times to breakdown at a polymer-oil interface

摘要

When analyzing the time to breakdown in gases and in liquids, two different processes can be considered: initiation of the breakdown described by the statistical time ts and the development of a conducting channel across the gap, leading to voltage collapse described by the formative time tf. An exponential distribution for the breakdown behavior was proposed by von Laue, based on Zuber's experimental data: