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  title info:
    title: Electrical contacts
    sub title: principles and applications
  name:
    name part: Slade, Paul G.
    name part: 1941-
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: flu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1257 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Preface to the Second Edition Since the publication of the first edition of this book there have been some very costly system failures, which could have been prevented with a better knowledge of electrical contact phenomena. I will give two examples. The first is an electrical connector that supplied power to the "Main Fuel Shut-off Valve" in the F-16 fighter airplane. This connector used tin plated pins plugged into a gold plated socket. As will be briefly discussed in Chapters 3 and 4, the failure of this combination from fretting corrosion in the aircraft's vibration environment caused the fuel to stop flowing to the jet engines. Several F-16 crashes are attributed to this connector failure with a subsequent cost of over $100 M. In hindsight it is probable that this pin socket combination used extensively in the earlier F-111 airplane resulted in it cancellation. Failure of the connectors most probably resulted in this plane's performance changing from a "terrain following" aircraft to a "terrain impacting" one. The second example occurred in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which began its initial testing in September 2008. Soon after it began to operate, a connection to a 12 MVA transformer failed. This cut power to the main compressors that operated the cryogenic system for cooling the super conducting magnets in two sections. This failure caused extensive wiring damage that cost more than $20 M to repair and set back the initial operation of this expensive experimental system by about nine months"--
  table of contents: part I. Contact interface conduction -- part II. Nonarcing contacts -- part III. The electric arc and switching device technology -- part IV. Arcing contact materials -- part V. Sliding electrical contacts -- part VI. Contact data.
  note: edited by Paul G. Slade.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Electric contacts
  classification: TK2821 .E34 2013eb
  classification: 621.31/042
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    title info:
      title: Electrical contacts : principles and applications
    origin info:
      publisher: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, [2014]
    physical description:
      extent: xliv, 1210 pages
    identifier: (DLC) 2013045571
  identifier: 9781439881309 (hardback)
  identifier: 9781439881316 (e-book)
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
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      url: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 131113
    record change date: 20250816212413.5
    record identifier: in00003483640
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng