Contact resistance study of high-copper alloys used in power automotive connectors

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering

Volumn 222, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1375-1383

  El Abdi, R ^a   Beloufa, A ^b   Benjemaa N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Contact resistance; Finite element modelling; High copper alloys; Power automotive connectors; Roughness

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; CONTACT RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDENTATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AUTOMOTIVE CONNECTORS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH-COPPER ALLOYS; MECHANICAL ASPECTS; POWER AUTOMOTIVE CONNECTORS; POWER CONNECTORS; SLIDING CONTACTS;

COPPER ALLOYS;

EID: 51749123570     PISSN: 09544070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544070JAUTO799     Document Type: Article

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