A Laminated Track for the Inductrack System: Theory and Experiment

摘要

This paper describes work on alternative technologies associated with an urban maglev system that employs Halbach arrays of permanent magnets onboard a moving vehicle to induce levitating currents in a stationary "track". A laminated structure, composed of stacks of thin conducting sheets, has several advantages over a litz-cable ladder -as the track. Modeling and experimental results for the laminated track are described and evaluated in this paper.