Permanent Magnet and Electromechanical Devices: Materials, Analysis, and Applications (Electromagnetism)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 528 pages
• Published by: Academic Press
• Edition: 1st Edition August 15, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0122699513
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0122699511
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Description
The book provides both the theoretical and the applied background needed to predict magnetic fields. The theoretical presentation is reinforced with over sixty solved examples of practical engineering applications such as the design of magnetic components like solenoids, which are electromagnetic coils that are moved by electric currents and activate other devices such as circuit breakers. Other design applications would be for permanent magnet structures such as bearings and couplings, which are hardware mechanisms used to fashion a temporary connection between two wires.

This book is written for use as a text or reference by researchers, engineers, professors, and students engaged in the research, development, study, and manufacture of permanent magnets and electromechanical devices. It can serve as a primary or supplemental text for upper level courses in electrical engineering on electromagnetic theory, electronic and magnetic materials, and electromagnetic engineering.

Back Cover Copy
Permanent Magnet and Electromechanical Devices: Materials, Analysis, and Applications is a comprehensive and self-contained exposition of the theory and methods used in the analysis and design of permanent magnet and electromechanical devices. It contains extensive discussions of several key topics of applied magnetics, including the theory of ferromagnetism, a survey of magnetic materials, magnetostatic analysis, magnetic circuit theory, the design of
rare-earth permanent magnet structures, and the analysis of electromechanical devices. The book is a valuable text or reference for researchers, professors, engineers, and students engaged in the development of permanent magnet materials, computation of magnetic fields, analysis of magnetic circuits, design of permanent magnet structures, and development of electromechanical devices such as transducers, actuators, and motors. It can also serve as a primary or supplemental text for courses on applied magnetics, permanent magnetism, electromechanical energy conversion, or motion control. The book provides a rigorous theoretical foundation for the subject matter and demonstrates the application of theory to the implementation of practical designs. The theoretical presentation is reinforced with numerous illustrations and over sixty solved examples of practical applications.
· Extensive discussion of magnetic materials, including the physical principles of magnetism, domains, hysteresis, soft and hard magnetic materials and their properties, and the magnetization and stability of permanent magnets.
· Comprehensive presentation of analytical and numerical methods for the analysis of steady currents, permanent magnets, and magnetic circuits.
· Over sixty solved examples of practical permanent magnet and electromechanical applications
· Analytical analysis and design formulas for the field distributions of the most common rare-earth magnet structures and the performance of rare-earth magnetic couplings, gears, and bearings
· Extensive discussion of the theory of electromechanical devices with numerous solved examples
· Analytical analysis and design formulas for linear and rotational actuators, brushless DC motors, and stepper motors
· Presentation of a hybrid analytical-FEM approach to analysis of electromechanical devices
· Introduction to magnetic microactuators

Reader Reviews
Last year I was seeking a reference book on permanent magnetic motors. I found this book to be an excellent choice. The subject material includes magnetic materials and properties, leading into the various classes of permanent magnet materials, a good review of Maxwell's equations, which is used to lead into several useful analytical models, before closing with a review of permanent magnet devices and electromechanical devices. If the book had included problem sets at the end of each chapter, it would have ended up as an excellent graduate level textbook on the subject. As it is, the book will serve experienced technical folks well, either as a refresher on material already known, or as a method of teaching new material in all its gory detail.