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Transportation: Superconductors
Leandra Colella, Daniel Coo, Chad Hartman, Bayley Wood
Transportation is central to life and to our infrastructure. People use transportation to commute short and long distances or for leisure purposes. However, we need to modernize the way we use transportation because of environmental issues and a need for more efficient methods of travel. In our video, we describe traditional ways of transportation for example metros and planes. We show the inefficiencies of these methods of transportations and introduce the viewer to MagLev technology. We give reasons for why MagLev trains would be more beneficial than other forms of mass transportation. We describe what this technology is and how it is being implemented in these trains. For example, in Shanghai, China, the first operational MagLev train has shown the benefits of this technology.
We focus our video on ceramic superconductors, the material that is the main component of the electromagnetics in MagLev technology. Superconductors are a key part in the propulsion technology and we investigate how the properties of superconductors are best fitted for MagLev. On the processing side, ceramic superconductors are drawn into long wires which are then cooled and manufactured into the train and the rail. While these trains are effective in most ways, the cost of building large scale MagLev trail lines is too high. And logistically, MagLev trains cannot be diverted to alternate tracks which limits possible destinations.
ccas-web.org/superconductivity/#image1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_wire#Powder-in-tube
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconductivity
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/c/clayton/www/presson/paper.htm
Maglev train system for United States?.Nature (London). 1988;331:474-474.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Comparison_with_conventional_trains
scitation.aip.org/docserver/fulltext/aip/journal/rsi/74/12/1.1622973.pdf?expires=1397748367&id=id&accname=478525&checksum=6C682448F018EA64532AE3F80D107D2D
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_commuter_rail_systems_by_ridership
maglev.net/new-york-washington-maglev
Shanghai Maglev youtube.com/watch?v=rmsvzOV7iXM
Traffic video youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHceGfpt_o
Maglev train youtube.com/watch?v=aIwbrZ4knpg
Crowded hustle and bustle youtube.com/watch?v=suuVSV5uD58
Antlauf, W., Bernardeau, F. G., & Coates, K. C. (2004). Fast Track. Civil Engineering (08857024), 74(11), 36-43.
Transportation: Superconductors
Leandra Colella, Daniel Coo, Chad Hartman, Bayley Wood
Transportation is central to life and to our infrastructure. People use transportation to commute short and long distances or for leisure purposes. However, we need to modernize the way we use transportation because of environmental issues and a need for more efficient methods of travel. In our video, we describe traditional ways of transportation for example metros and planes. We show the inefficiencies of these methods of transportations and introduce the viewer to MagLev technology. We give reasons for why MagLev trains would be more beneficial than other forms of mass transportation. We describe what this technology is and how it is being implemented in these trains. For example, in Shanghai, China, the first operational MagLev train has shown the benefits of this technology.
We focus our video on ceramic superconductors, the material that is the main component of the electromagnetics in MagLev technology. Superconductors are a key part in the propulsion technology and we investigate how the properties of superconductors are best fitted for MagLev. On the processing side, ceramic superconductors are drawn into long wires which are then cooled and manufactured into the train and the rail. While these trains are effective in most ways, the cost of building large scale MagLev trail lines is too high. And logistically, MagLev trains cannot be diverted to alternate tracks which limits possible destinations.
ccas-web.org/superconductivity/#image1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_wire#Powder-in-tube
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconductivity
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/c/clayton/www/presson/paper.htm
Maglev train system for United States?.Nature (London). 1988;331:474-474.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Comparison_with_conventional_trains
scitation.aip.org/docserver/fulltext/aip/journal/rsi/74/12/1.1622973.pdf?expires=1397748367&id=id&accname=478525&checksum=6C682448F018EA64532AE3F80D107D2D
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_commuter_rail_systems_by_ridership
maglev.net/new-york-washington-maglev
Shanghai Maglev youtube.com/watch?v=rmsvzOV7iXM
Traffic video youtube.com/watch?v=ZkHceGfpt_o
Maglev train youtube.com/watch?v=aIwbrZ4knpg
Crowded hustle and bustle youtube.com/watch?v=suuVSV5uD58
Antlauf, W., Bernardeau, F. G., & Coates, K. C. (2004). Fast Track. Civil Engineering (08857024), 74(11), 36-43.
