TY - JOUR N2 - The paper presents descriptions of bridge disintegration types and contact mass loss in the bridge stage. There is presented Matlab solvers to solve equation describing dynamic changes of temperature in the bridge region. The final result of program calculations is the mass loss and the volume of the metal of contacts which was lost during the bridge stage. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/84572/PDF/02_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/84572 PY - 2011 IS - No 4 December EP - 411 DO - 10.2478/v10171-011-0034-3 KW - electrical arc KW - contact mass loss KW - contact bridge KW - software A1 - Borkowski, Piotr PB - Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 60 DA - 2011 T1 - A mathematical model for calculating contact mass loss resulting from bridge disintegration in vacuum SP - 399 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/84572 T2 - Archives of Electrical Engineering ER -