A simulation tool to predict the impact of soil topologies on coupling between a light rail system and buried third-party infrastructure

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1404-1416

  Charalambous, Charalambos A ^a   Cotton, Ian ^a   Aylott, Pete ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CAPCIS Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Dc light rail; Soil topologies; Stray current

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORROSION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; SOILS; TOPOLOGY;

DC LIGHT RAIL SYSTEMS; STRAY CURRENT;

LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT;

EID: 44849135525     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.909312     Document Type: Article

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