Investigation of human exposure due to unintended electromagnetic emissions in electric vehicles

Author

Low, Lester ; Ruddle, Alastair R.

Author_Institution

MIRA Ltd., Nuneaton, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

8-12 April 2013

Firstpage

1285

Lastpage

1289

Abstract

A simplified vehicle-like structure has been used for preliminary investigations of the likely impact of vehicle bodyshell materials and structures on the unintentional emission of low frequency magnetic fields within electric vehicles. Measured currents on a high voltage battery cable were also used, together with a frequency domain 3D finite element model of the metallic parts of a real vehicle chassis, in order to investigate time-varying electromagnetic field exposure and mitigation strategies for an electric vehicle with dielectric panels.

Keywords

biological effects of fields; electric vehicles; finite element analysis; frequency-domain analysis; dielectric panels; electric vehicles; frequency domain 3D finite element model; high-voltage battery cable; human exposure; low-frequency magnetic fields; metallic parts; mitigation strategy; simplified vehicle-like structure; time-varying electromagnetic field exposure; unintended electromagnetic emissions; vehicle bodyshell materials; vehicle chassis; Batteries; Current measurement; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Magnetic flux density; Steel; Vehicles; electric vehicle; finite element method; high-voltage power cable; human exposure; hybrid vehicle; magnetic field;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2013 7th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Gothenburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2187-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-88-907018-1-8

Type

conf

Filename

6546486