S Orlowska et al 2004 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 37 758 doi:10.1088/0022-3727/37/5/018
S Orlowska1, A Beroual1 and J Fleszynski2
Show affiliationsThis paper deals with the analysis of the influence of moisture on the dielectric properties of a composite insulator core made of epoxy resin and fibre glass, through measurements of the effective permittivity. The experiments are carried out on different core samples—dry and boiled in distilled water over different time intervals. The measured values of the complex permittivity of the core samples are discussed in the light of the results obtained by a numerical approach based on the boundary integral equation method and the PHI3D package. The comparison of the experimental and simulated results aims at finding the water content in the fibre glass.
77.22.Ch Permittivity (dielectric function)
85.50.-n Dielectric, ferroelectric, and piezoelectric devices
Soft matter, liquids and polymers
Issue 5 (7 March 2004)
Received 12 May 2003
Published 11 February 2004
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