• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.337-344
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• 2003

In DC/DC converter and VVVF inverter, which are the must dominant noise sources of Maglev train, noise is radiated from core and coil excited by MS(Magnetostriction). The main noise source of DC/DC converter is transformer whose spectrum shows strong peaks associated with harmonics of exciting frequency, On the other hand, LIM/VVVF noise is dominated by the harmonics of switching frequency, whereas harmonics of exciting frequency are not significant. As switching frequency is increased in VVVF inverter, it is shown that the harmonics are shifted to higher frequency range. If switching frequency is increased from 700㎐ to 2 ㎑, It is measured that noise can be reduced by 5 to 6 ㏈. Since complete mathematical description of MS phenomena is far beyond the present technology, vibration spectrum is investigated qualitatively in this paper, where effect of increasing switching frequency is confirmed.