Railway traction reliability

2010 6th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems, CIPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mermet Guyennet, Michel ^a   Piton, Michel ^a  

^a ALSTOM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY TECHNOLOGY; DUTY CYCLES; EXTRAPOLATION METHODS; FAILURE MECHANISM; JUNCTION TEMPERATURES; LIFE-TIMES; NUMBER OF CYCLES TO FAILURE; POWER CYCLING; RAILWAY TRACTION; TEMPERATURE CYCLES; THERMAL CONSTRAINTS; THERMAL CYCLE;

EXTRAPOLATION; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; THERMAL CYCLING; TRACTION (FRICTION);

SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

EID: 79953732618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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