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Keywords: oil-paper insulation structure, insulation pressboard, creeping flashover, scale effect, streamer theory

Citation: Bao Y, Wang F, Liu K and Tao B (2024) Creeping flashover test methods, characteristics, and mechanisms of oil-paper insulation structures of power transformers. Front. Mater. 10:1345676. doi: 10.3389/fmats.2023.1345676

Received: 28 November 2023; Accepted: 27 December 2023; Published: 16 January 2024.

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