Stress analysis applications to service failures of the traveling wave tubes
Abstract
By utilizing the mathematical analogy between the electrostatic fields and the elastic stress fields, the electrostatic stresses in high voltage electronic devices such as Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT) can be obtained from finite element technique. A new point of view about the vacuum electrical breakdown from the theory of elastic stress concentration has been proposed. The elastic stress concentration factors may be used as a good reference figure for TWT design works.
- Publication:
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IN: Failure prevention and reliability - 1983; Proceedings of the Fifth Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983fpr..proc..161Y
- Keywords:
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- Electronic Equipment Tests;
- Electrostatics;
- Failure Modes;
- Stress Analysis;
- Traveling Wave Tubes;
- Analogies;
- Dielectrics;
- Elastic Properties;
- Finite Element Method;
- High Voltages;
- Stress Distribution;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering