Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications, Edition 3

Austin Hughes

Dec 2005 · Elsevier

About this ebook

Electric Motors and Drives is intended for non-specialist users of electric motors and drives, filling the gap between theory-based academic textbooks and the more prosaic 'handbooks', which provide useful detail but little opportunity for the development of real insight and understanding. The book explores all of the widely-used modern types of motor and drive, including conventional and brushless D.C., induction motors and servo drives, providing readers with the knowledge to select the right technology for a given job. Austin Hughes' approach, using a minimum of maths, has established Electric Motors and Drives as a leading guide for engineers, and the key to a complex subject for a wider readership, including technicians, managers and students.

• Acquire essential practical knowledge of motors and drives, with a minimum of math and theory
• Updated material on the latest and most widely-used modern motors and drives
• New edition includes additional diagrams and worked examples throughout

Ratings and reviews

This book provides an excellent compromise between the Engineer's 'pure motor theory with its ghastly mathematical formulae' and a lay persons completely metaphorical and analogy based over simplifications. This book is aimed directly at the engineering support technicians viewpoint and role. In other words; there is enough detail to satiate most electronic technicians with complete discussion of the theory, but with a minimum of mathematics so that the technician can grasp underlying principles of operation, and gain a trust of the theory behind it, without wading through the heavy numbers. It reads well, it teaches for maximum clarity, and is detailed enough to be a pseudo-reference work in its own right. This is the book I have been looking for, and it has a permanent place on my bookshelf. I highly recommend it!

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About the author

Austin Hughes was a long-time member of the innovative motors and drives research team at the University of Leeds, UK, and has established a reputation for an informal style that opens up complex subjects to a wide readership, including students and managers as well as technicians and engineers.