A procedure for the wear prediction of collector strip and contact wire in pantograph-catenary system

Wear

Volumn 266, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 46-59

  Bucca, Giuseppe ^a   Collina, Andrea ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electro mechanical contact; Pantograph catenary interaction; Wear mechanism map

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COPPER; DUST COLLECTORS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LINES; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FORECASTING; GRAPHITE; OVERHEAD LINES; PANTOGRAPHS; TESTING; THEOREM PROVING; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

CATENARY SYSTEMS; COLLECTOR STRIPS; COMPARATIVE TESTS; CONTACT FORCES; CONTACT STRIPS; CONTACT WIRES; COPPER COLLECTORS; CURRENT INTENSITIES; DC LINES; DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; ELECTRICAL CONTACT RESISTANCES; ELECTRICAL CURRENT FLOWS; ELECTRICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRICAL PHENOMENONS; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL CONTACT; GRAPHITE COLLECTORS; INSTANTANEOUS VALUES; LABORATORY TESTS; MAIN PARAMETERS; MATERIAL COMBINATIONS; MECHANICAL TENSIONS; REAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; SLIDING CONTACTS; SLIDING SPEEDS; WEAR LEVELS; WEAR MAPS; WEAR MODELS; WEAR PREDICTIONS; WEAR RATES; WEAR-MECHANISM MAP;

WIRE;

EID: 55249119990     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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