Abderrezak Rezzoug is professor at the Université Henri Poincaré in Nancy, France.

Mohammed El-Hadi Zaïm is a professor at the Polytech'Nantes of the Université de Nantes in France.

Introduction ix

Chapter 1. Theoretical Tools and Materials for Electric Machines 1
Abderrezak REZZOUG and Mohammed El-Hadi ZAÏM

1.1. Theoretical tools 1

1.2. Materials 16

1.3. Bibliography 35

Chapter 2. Low-speed Teeth Coupling Machines 39
Daniel MATT, Abdel Mounaïm TOUNZI and Mohammed El-Hadi ZAÏM

2.1. Introduction 39

2.2. Positioning of the problem. Outline of the feasibility limits 41

2.3. Teeth coil winding and toothed pole machines 63

2.4. Machines with distributed winding and the Vernier effect 82

2.5. Bibliography 112

Chapter 3. High-speed Electric Machines 117
Mohammed El-Hadi ZAÏM, Hamid Ben AHMED and Nicolas BERNARD

3.1. Interest in high-speed rotational operating 117

3.2. Criteria and constraints of a high-speed machine 121

3.3. Types of electric machines 142

3.4. Examples of applications 152

3.5. Methodology of high-speed machine optimization 169

3.6. Bibliography 184

Chapter 4. Superconducting Machines 191
Abderrezak REZZOUG, Jean LÉVÊQUE and Bruno DOUINE

4.1. Introduction 191

4.2. Superconducting materials in electrotechnology 192

4.3. Superconducting materials used in electric machines 201

4.4. Losses in the self-field of superconductors 212

4.5. Cryogenic environment 216

4.6. Superconducting machines 235

4.7. Bibliography 250

List of Authors 257

Index 259