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A Study on the Material Characteristics of Contacts on Bias Track Relay

바이어스 궤도계전기 접점의 재질 특성에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Hee-Dae (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea national university of transportation) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Il (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea national university of transportation)
  • Received : 2012.06.12
  • Accepted : 2012.11.01
  • Published : 2012.12.31

Abstract

The cases for selecting contact materials of Ag and AgC for Bias Track Relay are the studies and their safety evaluations are proposed in this paper. The welding at the relative low current has occurred in Ag contacts, but the one has not occurred in AgC contacts although the high currents flow since it has an excellent temperature characteristic. In the repetitive switching experiment, more unstable resistance and transfer phenomena has occurred in contacts as the switching numbers of AgC contacts increase, which results in more consumption of contacts. In the experiments, there exists a trade off relationship between welding and resistance variation. AgC contacts have excellent characteristics in welding, but the caution is required in using them since a lot of repetition switching produces much resistance variation. However, Ag contacts have excellent characteristics in repetitive switching, but weak ones in welding.

본 연구에서는 바이어스 궤도계전기의 접점재료를 선정하는데 있어 Ag 접점과 AgC 접점의 문제점을 분석하고, 안전성을 평가하는데 목적이 있다. 접점의 용착실험과 반복개폐 실험을 실시하여 접점의 특성을 알아보았다. 실험 결과, Ag 접점은 비교적 낮은 전류에서 용착이 발생하였고, AgC 접점은 온도특성이 우수하여 대전류에서도 용착이 발생하지 않았다. 반복개폐 실험에서는 AgC 접점의 개폐횟수가 증가할수록 저항이 불안정하고 접점에 전이현상이 발생하여 접점소모가 큰 것으로 나타났다. 연구 결과, AgC 접점은 용착특성에서는 우수하나 반복개폐 실험에서 저항변화가 많아 사용상 주의가 요구되며, Ag 접점은 반복개폐 특성은 우수하나 용착특성에서 취약한 것으로 나타났다.

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