Electrical Fires and Failures: Prevention and Troubleshooting - Hardcover

Hattangadi, A. A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071356517 ISBN 13: 9780071356510

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1999

Synopsis

Electrical Fires and Failures: A Prevention and Troubleshooting Guide is must reading for electrical supervisors, engineers and managers. Author A.A. Hattangadi shows you how improvements in specification and design...manufacture and installation...and operation and maintenance of minor components, can prevent failures and fires, while reducing capital and maintenance costs. He introduces the concept of "seed-defect", basic flaws that can be identified and eliminated to achieve zero-failure performance. You'll explore... *Failures of transformers, connectors and terminals *Fractures and overheating/burning of crimped sockets *Failures of wire strands, terminal boards, connector cable insulation and welded brazed and soldered joints *Metal fatigue and creep *Electrical contact resistance and shrinkage of non-metallic materials *Thermal degradation of insulating materials *Electrical tracking *And more.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Play It Safe. Play It Smart. GET ZERO FAILURE PERFORMANCE FROM ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.

With a Foreword by H. Brooke Stauffer, Director of Codes and Standards of the National Electrical Contractors Association

Get the jump on costly and damaging electrical problems, before they spark. Electrical Fires and Failures helps you steer clear of the design and installation flaws behind almost every electrical mishap, malfunction, and disaster.

What's more, this no-nonsense book helps you safeguard and troubleshoot existing installations in all types of facilities. Written by an internationally respected electrical reliability engineer, and perfectly suited for all professionals concerned with electrical safety and performance, this guide features:

*Valuable preventive tips and procedures for electrical design, materials, and installations of every description
*Fail-safe techniques for transformers, connectors, plugs, crimped sockets, wires, cables, terminal boards, and every other common type of electrical equipment
*Methods for avoiding metal creep, metal fatigue, joined-connection failure, contact resistance, thermal degradation, shrinkage of nonmetals, and other insulation failures
*Investigation guidelines
*Training procedures

Whether you're an electrical contractor, inspector, equipment manufacturer, or engineer, Electrical Fires and Failures is the one guide that makes zero failure performance of electrical equipment a reality.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0071356517
• ISBN 13: 9780071356510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240