Sterling Engineering, Westchester, IL (United States).Polytechnic Univ., Brooklyn, NY (United States).Argonne National Lab., IL (United States).The system would allow economical evaluation of more » integrated systems under varying weather conditions and in realistic geometries. The vehicle would provide a test cell in which individual suspension or propulsion components or subsystems could be tested under realistic conditions. The facility would utilize modular vehicles and guideways, permitting the substitution of levitation, propulsion, and guideway components of different designs and materials for evaluation. Test vehicles would be about 7.4 m (25 ft) long, would weigh form 3 to 7 metric tons, and would operate at speeds up to 67 m/s (150 mph) on a 3.3-km (2.05-mi) elevated guideway. Facility site requirements were identified.
Preliminary designs for versatile, dual 2-MVA power supplies capable of powering attractive or repulsive systems were developed. The effort included studies of multiple concepts for levitating, guiding, and propelling maglev vehicles, as well as the controls, communications, and data-acquisition and -reduction equipment that would be required in operating the facility. A technical advisory committee was established and a conference was held to obtain advice on the potential requirements of operational systems and how the facility might best be configured to test these requirements. A preliminary design was made of a national user facility for evaluating magnetic-levitation (maglev) technologies in sizes intermediate between laboratory experiments and full-scale systems.
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