Electric motors and drives
Subtitle: fundamentals, types and applications
By: Austin Hughes, Bill Drury
Contributors: Drury, Bill
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: Newnes, an imprint of Elsevier
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waltham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780080983325
Subjects: Electric driving; Electric motors
Description: Electric Motors and Drives is intended for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives, filling the gap between math- and theory-based academic textbooks and the more prosaic 'handbooks', which provide useful detail but little opportunity for the development of real insight and understanding. The book explores all of the widely-used modern types of motor and drive, including conventional and brushless D.C., induction motors and servo drives, providing readers with the knowledge to select the right technology for a given job. The third edition includes additional diagrams and worked examples throughout. New topics include digital interfacing and control of drives, direct torque control of induction motors and current-fed operation in DC drives. The material on brushless servomotors has also been expanded. Austin Hughes' approach, using a minimum of maths, has established Electric Motors and Drives as a leading guide for electrical engineers and mechanical engineers, and the key to a complex subject for a wider readership, including technicians, managers and students. * Acquire knowledge of and understanding of the capabilities and limitations of motors and drives without struggling through unnecessary maths and theory * Updated material on the latest and most widely-used modern motors and drives, including brushless servomotors * New edition includes additional diagrams and worked examples throughout.
Notes: Includes index.

Previous edition: 2006.
Table of contents: title: Electric motors : the basics; title: Introduction to power electronic converters for motor drives; title: Conventional D.C. motors; title: D.C. motor drives; title: Induction motors : rotating field, slip and torque; title: Induction motors : operation from 50/60 Hz supply; title: Variable frequency operation of induction motors; title: Inverter-fed induction motor drives; title: Synchronous and brushless permanent magnet machines and drives; title: Stepping and switched-reluctance motors; title: Motor/drive selection.