ABSTRACT

Based on author Ion Boldea’s 40 years of experience and the latest research, Linear Electric Machines, Drives, and Maglevs Handbook provides a practical and comprehensive resource on the steady improvement in this field. The book presents in-depth reviews of basic concepts and detailed explorations of complex subjects, including classifications and practical topologies, with sample results based on an up-to-date survey of the field.

Packed with case studies, this state-of-the-art handbook covers topics such as modeling, steady state, and transients as well as control, design, and testing of linear machines and drives. It includes discussion of types and applications—from small compressors for refrigerators to MAGLEV transportation—of linear electric machines. Additional topics include low and high speed linear induction or synchronous motors, with and without PMs, with progressive or oscillatory linear motion, from topologies through modeling, design, dynamics, and control.

With a breadth and depth of coverage not found in currently available references, this book includes formulas and methods that make it an authoritative and comprehensive resource for use in R&D and testing of innovative solutions to new industrial challenges in linear electric motion/energy automatic control.

chapter 1|34 pages

Fields, Forces, and Materials for LEMs

chapter 2|20 pages

Classifications and Applications of LEMs

chapter 3|40 pages

Linear Induction Motors

Topologies, Fields, Forces, and Powers Including Edge, End, and Skin Effects

chapter 4|34 pages

Linear Induction Motors

Circuit Theories, Transients, and Control

chapter 5|20 pages

Design of Flat and Tubular Low-Speed LIMs

chapter 7|17 pages

DC-Excited Linear Synchronous Motors (DCE-LSM)

Steady State, Design, Transients, and Control

chapter 9|22 pages

Homopolar Linear Synchronous Motors (H-LSM)

Modeling, Design, and Control

chapter 10|22 pages

Linear Reluctance Synchronous Motors

Modeling, Performance Design, and Control

chapter 11|34 pages

Linear Switched Reluctance Motors (L-SRM)

Modeling, Design, and Control

chapter 15|38 pages

Plunger Solenoids and Their Control

chapter 16|14 pages

Linear DC PM Brushless Motors

chapter 18|22 pages

Multiaxis Linear PM Motor Drives

chapter 20|30 pages

Repulsive Force Levitation Systems

chapter 21|18 pages

Active Guideway MAGLEVs

chapter 22|24 pages

Passive Guideway MAGLEVs