The aims and objectives of the AIEE committee on dielectrics

The new AIEE Committee on Dielectrics will promote the symposia on all aspects of the field of dielectrics ranging from theory to applications involving more than one type of apparatus. The principal purpose of the Committee will be to serve the design and development engineers who must apply this information to practice. The scope will include the treatment of all phases of the field including solids, liquids, and gases, as well as the mechanism of deterioration of dielectrics in general and particularly those caused by heat and corona. One of the major functions of the Committee will be the development of information and standard test procedures for the thermal evaluation of insulating materials. A number of test procedures are under development and one on the thermal evaluation of enamelled wire is now being printed by the Institute.