High Voltage Engineering

A textbook for a one-semester course in the final undergraduate or first graduate year, touching on the whole range of topics necessary to design and develop high-voltage power generation and transmission systems. Among them are insulating materials and their applications, the breakdown of insulating materials, generating and measuring high voltages and currents, overvoltage phenomena, and testing techniques and equipment. The second edition adds several new topics and updates others; the date of the first is not noted. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.