Impact of railplug circuit parameters on energy deposition and durability

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Bhat, Sameer ^a   Ezekoye, O A ^a   Matthews, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DURABILITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; POWERTRAINS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CIRCUIT DESIGNS; CIRCUIT PARAMETER; ENERGY DEPOSITIONS; IGNITION CIRCUIT; LOW VOLTAGES; OPTIMIZING ENERGY; SI ENGINES;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

EID: 85072425537     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2003-01-3135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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