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Pantograph and Contact Line System

  • 1st Edition - November 13, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Jiqin Wu
  • Language: English

Pantograph and Contact Line System comprehensively introduces pantographs, contact lines and their interactions in many areas including geometrics, dynamics, materials, and elect… Read more

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Description

Pantograph and Contact Line System comprehensively introduces pantographs, contact lines and their interactions in many areas including geometrics, dynamics, materials, and electrics—helpful to understanding the basic theories of interaction between pantographs and contact lines. The book examines application techniques for system design, construction and maintenance, and includes suggestions to keep pantograph and contact lines working in a safe and stable manner over the long term. In railway traction power supply system, the match between pantograph and contact lines is critical for reliable power transfer. The book provides application techniques for system management and parameter selection in design, construction and maintenance.

This book is useful for people who are in catenary and pantograph-related areas such as college teachers and students, researchers and other professional and technical personnel in design, manufacture, construction, operation and maintenance.

Key features

  • Includes comprehensive coverage of all types of electric-powered trains
  • Presents pantographs and contact lines as a whole system
  • Explores electrical acting between pantograph and contact line systems for the first time
  • Summarizes techniques in geometrics, dynamics, materials and electrics
  • Establishes theories specific to pantograph and contact line systems
  • Applies theories of pantograph, contact lines and other interactions into system management and parameter selection in design, construction and maintenance
  • Provides the techniques applied in measurement and maintenance

Readership

Graduate students, researchers, technicians who are engaged in design, construction, maintenance and management of pantograph and contact line systems in electric railway, urban rail transportation, and related fields

Table of contents

1. Introduction2. Pantograph3. Geometric Properties of Pantograph and Contact Line4. Dynamic Interaction between Pantograph and Contact Line5. Material Interface of Pantograph and Contact Line6. Electric Contact Properties of Pantograph and Contact Line7. Design and Construction of Pantograph and Contact Line System8. Operation and Maintenance of Pantograph and Contact Line System9. Parameter Measurement of Pantograph and Contact Line System

Review quotes

"This book is very practical and loaded with interesting design information that would be very useful to anyone designing these types of systems. Overall, the writing is clear and easy to follow

Pantograph and Contact Line System

would be useful to our readers who are interested in catenary and pantograph-related areas, such as college teachers and students, researchers, and other professionals involved in that design, manufacture, construction, operation, and maintenance of pantographs and catenary systems."—IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 13, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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Jiqin Wu

Professor Wu graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University in 1988 and received his BSc degree. He has nearly 20 years’ of experience in teaching and researching on basic theory of pantograph and contact line system, and has participated in the projects of design, construction and maintenance of Chinese overhead contact line system. He directed high-speed overhead contact line system vibration tests for high-speed railways such as Beijing-Tianjin, Wuhan-Guangzhou, Zhengzhou-Xi’an, Beijing-Shanghai, and construction of contact test bed of pantograph and contact line system in National Laboratory in Rail Transportation. He has published 3 books and more than 40 papers in pantograph and contact line system.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University

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