Dynamic stray current evaluations on cut-and-cover sections of DC metro systems

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3530-3538

  Charalambous, Charalambos A ^a   Aylott, Pete ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b Intertek   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cut and cover systems; DC transit systems; dynamic modeling; stray current design and control

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODELS; RAILROAD TUNNELS; TOPOLOGY;

ACCURATE MODELING; CORROSION PROBLEMS; COVER SYSTEM; CUT-AND-COVER METHOD; DESIGN AND CONTROL; DYNAMIC EVALUATION; TRANSIT SYSTEMS; TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION;

TUNNELS;

EID: 84908115770     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2304522     Document Type: Article

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