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Large, oil-filled transformers are complex engineered products, and their design and operation is well understood [1], [2]. They are expected to have a long service life under normal operating conditions but, like all large complex systems, are subject to lifetime and failure issues, many of which are thermally driven due to loading [3]–[5]. One particular failure mode has been observed to occur in...