Sang-Baeck Yoon, Jin Hur and Dong-Seok Hyun, "A Method of Optimal Design of Single-Sided Linear Induction Motor for Transit", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 33, No. 5, pp. 4215-4217, November 1997.

Abstract

 An optimal design method for a single-sided linear induction motor (SLIM)

for transit is described. We propose the method which determines the overall

parameters of SLIM for transit using only the rated mechanical output.

When the optimization is carried out, the slot depth is used as the initial value so

that the exact slot depth is calculated iteratively from the circuit equation.

The optimization problem of a SLIM design is approached by use of the sequential

quadratic programming (SQP). The influence of design variables is analyzed

by the rated thrust and the rated velocity respectively.