A novel method to detect broken rotor bars in squirrel cage induction motors when interbar currents are present

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-79

  Müller, Grant H ^a   Landy, Charles F ^b  

^a Sasol Synfuels International   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ac machines; Failure analysis; Fault diagnosis; Induction machines; Monitoring; Prediction methods; Rotating machines; Spectral analysis; Vibration measurement; Windings

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FAULT CURRENTS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTORS (WINDINGS); SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SQUIRREL CAGE MOTORS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

COPPER CAGE ROTORS; INTERBAR CURRENT THEORY; ROTOR BARS; STATOR FLUX;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY TESTING;

EID: 0037350339     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2002.808338     Document Type: Article

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