This series of tutorial articles explains the electrical and control engineering background in electric railways. The articles cover traction drives with DC and AC traction motors, electrification systems, and railway signalling and control systems. This first article covers the nature of the traction load, the requirements of the traction duty cycle and power electronic controlled traction drives using DC machines.
Electric railway traction. Part 1: Electric traction and DC traction motor drives
1994-02-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
English
Electric railway traction. Part 3: Traction power supplies
IET Digital Library Archive | 1994
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
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