Considerations in the numerical design for the armatures of LIM-type eddy-current rail brakes
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yoda, H.; Sakamoto, Y.
- Source
- 2017 11th International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA) Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA), 2017 11th International Symposium on. :1-6 Sep, 2017
- Subject
- Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Transportation
Rails
Finite element analysis
Force
Air gaps
Windings
Magnetic flux
Brakes
eddy-current rail brake
linear induction motor
FEM analysis
- Language
We have been developing LIM-type eddy current rail brakes (LIM-ECBs). In this paper, we introduced our approach to simplify the numerical design for the armatures of LIM-ECBs and show the study of changing the number of poles under fixed external dimensions as a specific example.