RTRI REPORT August 1998

Development of Magnetic Shield for Superconducting MAGLEV Vehicles

Naoto TAGAWA


MAGLEV vehicles with superconducting magnets have a high magnetic field around the magnets. We must steadily decrease magnetic flux density in the interior by magnetic shield. We manufactured an interior mock-up with magnetic shield at real size for vehicles for the Yamanashi test line. We performed a number of experiments to measure the magnetic field and study the performance of the magnetic shield. We confirmed the satisfactory effect of the magnetic shield.



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