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A proposal for a servoactuated pantograph able to reduce the mean value of contact force

Last updated on 09 November 2012 5:40

Current is still collected, in rail traction, by means of the pantograph. With the increase in running speed, however, this system reaches limit operating conditions that, for lines powered at 3 Kvolt DC are about 250-280 km/h. When the overhead lines are powered at 15 or 25 Kvolt...

Author(s): Toni Paolo;Rinchi Mirko;Papi Mauro

Organisation(s): Universit? di Firenze ; Ferrovie dello Stato S.p.A. ;

1997

Italy

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