V Sabariego, Ruth[Université de Liège - ULg > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Applied and Computational Electromagnetics (ACE) >]
Dang, Quoc Vuong[Université de Liège - ULg > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Applied and Computational Electromagnetics (ACE) >]
De Wulf, M.[ArcelorMittal Global R&D Gent, B-9060 Zelzate, Belgium > > > >]
2010
Proceedings of the 14th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC2010)
IEEE
International
978-1-4244-7059-4
14th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC2010)
May 9-12, 2010
IEEE
Chicago, Illinois
USA
[en] Shielding of buried three phase high voltage cables can be done by placing the cables in conducting ferromagnetic U-shaped gutters covered by plates. In case of a perfect electrical contact between adjacent gutters and between adjacent cover plates, the induced currents in the shield efficiently reduce the field generated in the vicinity of the cables. However, as a perfect contact cannot be guaranteed, it is useful to quantify the effect of a bad electrical contact on the shielding performance. From 2D FEM, 3D FEM and experiments, it is observed that a bad contact does not influence significantly the shielding if the axial length of the plates is relatively long compared to their other dimensions.