Effects of hardness on the lifetime of graphite brushes used for aircraft starter generators

This study concentrates on the relationship between the hardness of three different carbon/graphite brushes and the wear rate of the brushes and heat generated within a 400 Amp starter generator. The method being proposed was to alternate the starter generator from the starting mode and the generati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holle, Michael Jay
Other Authors: Asmatulu, Ramazan
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Wichita State University 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3959