Wear mechanism of copper alloy wire sliding against iron-base strip under electric current

Wear

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 179-183

  Nagasawa, Hiroki ^a   Kato, Koji ^b  

^a RAILWAY TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact strip; Copper alloy; Electric railways; Sintered alloy; Trolley wire; Wear

Indexed keywords

COPPER ALLOYS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC WIRE; IRON ALLOYS; SINTERING; TRACKLESS TROLLEYS;

CONTACT STRIP;

WEAR OF MATERIALS;

COPPER ALLOY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; IRON; WEAR;

EID: 0043265766     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(97)00162-2     Document Type: Article

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