Impact and management of stray current on DC rail systems

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2009, Issue 12715, 2009, Pages 238-245

  Aylott, P ^a   Cotton, I ^a   Charalambous, C A ^b  

^a CAPCIS Intertek ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corrosion; Rail transportation; Stray current; Transit

Indexed keywords

CABLE SHEATH; DC-RAIL; METALLIC STRUCTURES; RAIL TRANSPORTATION; STRAY CURRENT; TRANSIT; TRANSIT SYSTEMS;

CORROSION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EMPLOYMENT; MASS TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; RAILS;

ELECTRIC RAILROADS;

EID: 70449572395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic.2009.0021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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