Investigating Long-Distance Exploding-Wire Restrike
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University of Canterbury. Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2010
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Sinton, R.
van Herel, R.
Enright, W.
Bodger, P.S.
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An experimental setup was built using commonly available high-voltage laboratory equipment to investigate the creation of exploding-wire restrikes up to 9 m long. Sets of voltage traces are presented with varying applied average electric fields. Restrikes (formation of plasma paths) have been found to occur in a region of average electric field between 5.6 and 15 kV/m. The average electric field of this region of restrikes is relatively low and will assist in investigation of novel plasma conductor configurations.
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Sinton, R., van Herel, R., Enright, W., Bodger, P. (2010) Investigating Long-Distance Exploding-Wire Restrike. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 38(4), pp. 1015-1018.
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exploding wire (EW), plasma generation, restrike