Publications
Whilst the majority of our development work is confidential, Force regularly publish the results of in-house development work in leading journals. A selection of our papers and patents are included below.
Patents
- "Improvements in and relating to Electromotive Machines"
Inventor J. F. Eastham, International Patent Application No PCT/GB2007/003849 - "Improvements in and relating to Electromotive Machines"
Inventor J. F. Eastham, International Patent Application No PCT/GB2007/003851
Papers & Lectures
- 2009
- "Application of Planar Concentrated Windings to Induction Motors"
Prof. J F Eastham, Dr. T Cox, J Proverbs
Accepted for publication in IET Electric Power Applications - "Linear Induction Motor Technology - Past, Present and Future"
A. Foster
Lecture for IET members, Loughborough, Feb. 2009 - 2008
- "End Turn Leakage Reactance of Concentrated Modular Winding Stators"
T Cox, Prof. J F Eastham, J Proverbs
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 4057-4061, Nov. 2008 (Presented at INTERMAG, Madrid, May. 2008) - "Linear Induction Motors with Modular Winding Primaries and Wound Rotor Secondaries"
Prof. J F Eastham, T Cox, Dr P Leonard, J Proverbs
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 4033-4036, Nov. 2008 (Presented at INTERMAG, Madrid, May. 2008) - "Comparison Between Plate and Wound Secondaries for Linear Induction Motors with Concentrated Winding Primaries"
Prof. J F Eastham, T Cox, J Proverbs
IEEE Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, pp. 142-146, 2008 (Presented at SPEEDAM, Ischia, Jun. 2008) - "Accurately predicting the performance of linear induction motors"
J.D. Edwards, J. Proverbs
UK Magnetics Society Seminar on CAD for Electromagnetic Devices, Nov. 2008 - "Transient Analysis of Offset Stator Double Sided Short Rotor Linear Induction Motor Accelerator"
J. F. Eastham, T. Cox
MAGLEV, San Diego, Dec. 2008 - 2007
- "The use of concentrated windings for offset double stator linear induction motors"
J. F. Eastham, T. Cox, H. C. Lai, J. Proverbs, Electromotion
Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 51-56, Apr. 2008 (Presented at Linear Drives for Industrial Applications, Lille, pp. 106-107, Sep. 2007) - "Investigation of short-rotor linear induction motors using finite element modelling"
T Cox, Prof. J F Eastham, Dr H C Lai, J Proverbs
Linear Drives for Industrial Applications, Lille, Sep. 2007 - "Inverter control of low speed Linear Induction Motors"
S. Colyer, J Proverbs, A Foster
Linear Drives for Industrial Applications, Lille, Sep. 2007 - 2006
- "Electromagnetic launch using novel linear induction machines"
Prof. J F Eastham, T Cox, Dr H C Lai, J Proverbs, A Foster, S Colyer
IMarEST Engine as a Weapon, London, Dec. 2006 - "EMKIT - Development of an advanced linear induction motor powered UAV launch demonstrator"
A Foster, E Lewis, M Thompson
World Maritime Technology Conference, London, March 2006 - 2003
- "Linear Induction Motor Variable Frequency Standstill Tests to Predict Operational Velocity Performance"
J F Eastham, P C Coles, M Benarous, J Proverbs A Foster
Linear Drives for Industrial Applications, UK, 2003 - "The Evolution of Advanced induction Motors to Advanced Linear Induction Motors"
E Lewis, G Bellamy, J Proverbs
IMarEst, London, Dec. 2003 - "Electromagnetic Modelling applied to Induction Motors for Aircraft Carriers"
J Proverbs, E Lewis, J F Eastham, A Foster, P Norton
IMarEst, London, Dec. 2003 - 2001
- "Linear Machine Eddy Current Braking Techniques"
M Benarous, J F Eastham, J Proverbs, A Foster
Linear Drives for Industrial Applications, Japan 2001