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Abstract

This paper presents a dynamic modelling of a series of induction motors (IM) squirrel cage with different shapes of rotor deep bars taking into account the skin effect. The approach is divided into two parts. The first part consists in modelling the skin effect in a rectangular rotor deep-bar with three methods (conventional analytical method, nite element method and analysis method of circuit). These are compared (estimate of the relative error), and subsequently, generalized to more complex forms (trapezoidal, inverted, direct trapezoidal and double cage), done by using the two last methods which take into account the geometrical non-linearity of the slots. The second part consists in a dynamic modelling with variable parameters that take into account the skin effect, simulated for a series of motors with the same power (with different geometric shapes of rotor bars), to see their influence on the starting characteristics of these IM, and the results are compared and discussed.

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