Railway Pantograph–Catenary System
Optimizing Dynamics, Materials, and Performance
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Zefeng Yang, Wenfu Wei, Guoqiang Gao, Guangning Wu
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 6 7 6 3 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 6 7 6 4 - 9
Railway Pantograph–Catenary System unlocks the theoretical and practical complexities of this key element in high-speed railway electrification. This authoritative volume o… Read more
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Railway Pantograph–Catenary System unlocks the theoretical and practical complexities of this key element in high-speed railway electrification. This authoritative volume offers a focused exploration of optimization approaches for the electrical contact process, ensuring consistent, reliable, and efficient performance by addressing the system’s underlying dynamics, the materials of its components, as well as critical issues such as current-carrying frictional wear, arc phenomena, and environmental impacts.
Bridging multiple disciplines, the book presents recent research findings and introduces cutting-edge technologies, laying the foundation for future advancements. Its systematic analysis and inclusion of real-world case studies contribute to an in-depth understanding of how the system operates under varying conditions, equipping readers with guidance for effective implementation.
This comprehensive book proves to be an invaluable resource for both academic learners and industry experts and fosters closer collaboration to benefit railway transport all over the world.
- Provides relevant charts for operating parameters, arc parameters, and material parameters of the pantograph-catenary electrical system
- Deconstructs some significant issues of the pantograph-catenary system, proposing innovative solutions and insights from a multidisciplinary perspective
- Presents recent research findings and introduces advanced technologies, laying the groundwork for future advancements
- Includes, in the book's appendix, practical simulation methodologies
Postgraduate students, researchers, and academic instructors in railway engineering; transportation engineering, planning, and management; applied mechanical engineering; electrical engineering; materials science for rail vehicle components. Railway engineers (design, development, maintenance); electrical engineers; manufacturers of railway equipment; other technical industry practitioners engaged in innovations for reliable and sustainable transportation infrastructure.
1. Introduction
2. Dynamics of a Pantograph-Catenary System
3. Arc in a Pantograph Catenary System
4. Wear of Sliding Electric Contact in a PCS
5. Materials of Sliding Electric Contact in a PCS
Appendices:
- Method 1: Simulation for a PCS
- Method 2: Simulation for arc in a PCS
- Method 3: Wear simulation of electrical contact
- Method 4: Plasma treatment of carbon fiber
- Method 5: Preparation of carbon composite materials
2. Dynamics of a Pantograph-Catenary System
3. Arc in a Pantograph Catenary System
4. Wear of Sliding Electric Contact in a PCS
5. Materials of Sliding Electric Contact in a PCS
Appendices:
- Method 1: Simulation for a PCS
- Method 2: Simulation for arc in a PCS
- Method 3: Wear simulation of electrical contact
- Method 4: Plasma treatment of carbon fiber
- Method 5: Preparation of carbon composite materials
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
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Zefeng Yang
Zefeng Yang’s research focus is on the dynamics, arc phenomena, electrical contact, and materials for railway pantograph-catenary systems. He currently holds 18 national invention patents. He won the Ministry of Education’s First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019 and the IEEE International Standards Outstanding Contribution Award. In 2021 He is a representative of IEEE international standards (IEEE P2752, P2753, P2771), a member of the Sichuan Rail Transit High Voltage Technology Engineering Center, and a member of the Sichuan Science and Technology Youth Federation. In recent years, he has been involved in the design, and research and development efforts for the pantograph-catenary system for the CR450 high-speed train.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, ChinaWW
Wenfu Wei
Wenfu Wei is a Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. He carries out applied research in high-voltage insulation, electrical contact, discharge plasma, advanced electrical materials, and artificial intelligence for automation of power systems. He is the chairman of the IEEE International Standards Working Group, a member of several domestic and foreign academic organizations, a member of the editorial board of journals (the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, Railway Standard Design, and the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems), and a member of the China Railway Group. He has published 3 academic monographs in Chinese and English, is also a prolific journal author, and holds 30 national invention patents.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, ChinaGG
Guoqiang Gao
Guoqiang Gao’s primary research focuses on pantograph arc and electric contact, as well as rail transit high voltage and insulation technology. He won the Sichuan Outstanding Youth Fund (2018), the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Fund (2019), and was selected into the Sichuan Provincial Talent Program (2020). He’s a prolific author of journal papers and currently holds 26 national invention patents. He has won the First Prize of China Railway Science and Technology Progress Award and, the First Prize of Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award, and a Zhan Tianyou Youth Science and Technology Award. He has participated in IEEE standards development activities, and the resulting research has been successfully applied to the world's first 400km/h (CIT400) high-speed inspection vehicles and high-speed test trains (500km/h).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, ChinaGW
Guangning Wu
With the goal of ensuring the safe operation of key traction power supply equipment for high-speed railway, Professor Wu has successively presided over and undertaken a number of major scientific research projects, including 10 National Natural Science Foundation projects, among them 1 Outstanding Youth Science Foundation project, 3 Key Fund projects, and more than 20 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects such as the National Key R&D Program. Prof. Wu has carried out systematic and in-depth research work on advanced electrical materials for rail transit, state detection of traction power supply equipment, overvoltage and protection of traction power supply systems. His research’s results have been applied to high-speed railway between Wuhan and Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai, Harbin and Dalian, and heavy haul railway in Daqin and Shuohuang. He has won several prizes and holds 71 national invention patents. He is an editorial board member for several journals, including High Voltage (Wiley), the Journal of Electronic Science and Technology (Elsevier), and IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, among others, laying a good foundation for China's high-speed rail technology and equipment to go global.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Associate Dean, Institute of Frontier Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China