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Static and dynamic contact performance of marine circuit breakers consider jolt vibration

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To overcome the jolt vibration impact of marine circuit breakers, this paper studies the relationship between the influence parameters and the contact performance of the contact system. A parametric approach is utilized to explore the effects of load size, pulse width, and different waveform loads on the vibration response of the contact system. The results show that the vibration increases with the increase in acceleration at peak contact acceleration. The ultimate upsetting acceleration peak of the contact system is determined to be 9.2 g. Large acceleration impacts should be avoided. As far as pulse width is concerned, the vibration response of the system with narrow pulse width is more sensitive than that with broad pulse width. So, monitoring of narrow pulses should be increased. Additionally, under various forms of load, the range of safe contact areas is triangular load, half-sine load, and step load in that order. Thus, circuit breakers need to increase the detection of step loads to prevent faults. The findings provide a theoretical foundation and guidance for the design of low-vibration marine circuit breakers and the improvement of their contact performance.

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Abbreviations

m :

Mass of moving contact

x 1 :

Collision displacement of moving contact in the breaking state

x 2 :

Collision displacement of moving contact in the closing state

x 3 :

Compressed length of contact spring in the breaking state

x 4 :

Compressed length of contact spring in the breaking state

x 5 :

Final compressed length of contact spring in the breaking state

F 1 :

Interrupter push rod thrust

F 2 :

Interrupter self-closing force

c :

Equivalent dam** of the contact system

k :

Contact spring stiffness

P :

Contact pressure

M :

Mass matrix

K :

Stiffness matrix

C :

Dam** matrix

\(\ddot{x}(t)\) :

Column vector relative to the base of the acceleration of a particle

\(\dot{x}(t)\) :

Particle speed relative to the base of a column

\(x(t)\) :

Particle relative to the base displacement column vector

\({\ddot{x}}_{g}(t)\) :

Jolt incentive acceleration column

I :

Inertia force index vector

α j :

Influence factor of the natural oscillation period in the j-order mode

\(\varphi_{ji}\) :

Mode coordinate

\(G_{i}\) :

The gravity of particle i

\(\delta\) :

The plastic strand position parameter

w 0 :

The maximum displacement of the main frame center in the z-direction

σ :

Is the average value of the yield stress of the main frame material

I :

Total external dynamic load impulse

m :

Allocated to the main frame unit area mass

g m :

Peak seismic load

T :

Single seismic load action time

q max :

Peak load

T d :

Pulse width

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We appreciate the High-Performance Computing Center of Shanghai University, and Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Computing System (No. 19DZ2252600) for providing computing resources and technical support.

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    Tao Sun, Yuanjiang Geng, Lian Yang & Tianxi Lu

  2. School of Electrical Engineering, **’an Jiaotong University, **’an, China

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  3. Shanghai Marine Equipment Research Institute, Shanghai, China

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TS performed conceptualization, resources, supervision, writing—review and editing. YG analyzed conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, and writing—original draft. CC provided validation and investigation. QY approved visualization and investigation. LY provided software and validation. TL gave software and visualization.

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Sun, T., Geng, Y., Chen, C. et al. Static and dynamic contact performance of marine circuit breakers consider jolt vibration. Electr Eng 106, 2785–2798 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-023-02110-z

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