Influence of an aperture on the performance of a two-degree-of-freedom iron-coded spherical permanent-magnet actuator

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3650-3653

  Mitchell, J K ^a   Jewell, G W ^a   Wang, J ^a   Bingham, C M ^a   Howe, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite element modeling; Permanent magnet actuators; Reluctance torque; Spherical actuators; Unbalanced magnetic pull

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC CORES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOSTATICS; PERMANENT MAGNETS; STATORS; TORQUE;

FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; RELUCTANCE TORQUE; SPHERICAL PERMANENT-MAGNET ACTUATOR; UNBALANCED MAGNETIC PULL;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0036874878     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.804812     Document Type: Article

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