Electrical machine construction, operation and failure modes
This chapter could be subtitled 'the way rotating electrical machines fail in service'. These machines convert electrical to mechanical energy, or vice versa, and achieve this by magnetically coupling electrical circuits across an air-gap that permits rotational freedom of one of these circuits. Mechanical energy is transmitted into, or out of, the machine via a drive train that is mechanically connected to one of the electric circuits. The purpose of this chapter is to explain their constructional principles and the main causes of failure. The chapter is illustrated with a number of photographs to demonstrate to the reader the salient features of electrical machines.
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