DEVELOPMENT OF METAL/CARBON COMPOSITE PANTOGRAPH CONTACT STRIPS FOR THE SHINKANSEN ELECTRIC VEHICLES

To reduce the wear of contact wire, use of carbon as contact strips is effective. Metal/carbon composites that have lower electric resistivity and higher mechanical strength than pure carbon have been developed and used as pantograph contact strips of electric vehicles on several conventional narrow gauge lines. On the Shinkansen lines, pure carbon and carbon composite materials are not used because of their weakness to impacts, The authors have developed and tested the composites that are strong enough to be applicable for pantograph contact strip of the Shinkansen electric vehicles. This paper is an interim report on the development of the composite materials.

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  Railway Technical Research Institute

  2-8-38, Hikari-cho, Kokubunji-shi
  Tokyo 185,   Japan 
• Authors:
  • Kubo, S
  • Tsuchiya, H
  • Ikeuchi, J
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 76-81
• Serial:
  • Railway Technical Research Institute, Quarterly Reports
  • Volume: 38
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute/Tetsudo Gijutsu Kenkyujo
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • Serial URL: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carbon; Carbon fibers; Composite materials; Contact wire; Metals; Pantographs
• Uncontrolled Terms: Metallic composites
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00739869
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 10 1997 12:00AM