R.D. Thornton

490 total citations
38 papers, 363 citations indexed

About

R.D. Thornton is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, R.D. Thornton has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 363 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 18 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 7 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in R.D. Thornton's work include Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics (17 papers), Electric Motor Design and Analysis (10 papers) and Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects (4 papers). R.D. Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics (17 papers), Electric Motor Design and Analysis (10 papers) and Magnetic and Electromagnetic Effects (4 papers). R.D. Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United States and Belgium. R.D. Thornton's co-authors include Henry H. Kolm, Wendell S. Brown, Yoh Iwasa, D.H. Navon, Sakutaro Nonaka, Duncan White, Jeffrey H. Lang, David J. Perreault, D. N. Wormley and John H. Day and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Scientific American and SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series.

In The Last Decade

R.D. Thornton

34 papers receiving 313 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
R.D. Thornton United States	12	214	178	64	62	48	38	363
F.C. Williams United Kingdom	9	130 0.6×	128 0.7×	32 0.5×	65 1.0×	54 1.1×	23	327
Jing‐Chung Shen Taiwan	10	52 0.2×	537 3.0×	46 0.7×	32 0.5×	68 1.4×	28	583
Marc Pous Spain	13	443 2.1×	45 0.3×	37 0.6×	16 0.3×	38 0.8×	61	513
S. Kawamoto Japan	11	163 0.8×	186 1.0×	64 1.0×	15 0.2×	85 1.8×	33	421
Jium-Ming Lin Taiwan	8	123 0.6×	73 0.4×	88 1.4×	40 0.6×	53 1.1×	60	326
Andrzej Demenko Poland	16	598 2.8×	243 1.4×	36 0.6×	35 0.6×	219 4.6×	68	694
Fazal ur Rehman Pakistan	10	100 0.5×	237 1.3×	26 0.4×	33 0.5×	50 1.0×	54	364
A. Wright United States	10	179 0.8×	65 0.4×	32 0.5×	16 0.3×	57 1.2×	30	301
Slaven Kincic United States	11	344 1.6×	200 1.1×	35 0.5×	37 0.6×	21 0.4×	34	394

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Thornton, R.D., et al.. (2009). Linear Motor Powered Transportation [Scanning the Issue]. Proceedings of the IEEE. 97(11). 1754–1757. 35 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (2005). Linear Synchronous Motor Design. 1555–1560. 6 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D., et al.. (2005). The M3 Maglev People Mover: Suspension, Propulsion and Guideways. 1–12. 1 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D., et al.. (2004). Linear Synchronous Motor Propulsion of Small Transit Vehicles. 101–107. 8 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D., et al.. (2002). Simultaneous operation of UHF communication channels on an airborne platform. 1127–1134. 3 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D., et al.. (1996). Development of a Large Scale, High Speed Wheel Test Facility. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D., et al.. (1993). LINEAR SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS FOR MAGLEV. 3 indexed citations

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Wormley, D. N., et al.. (1992). INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MAGNETICALLY LEVITATED VEHICLES AND ELEVATED GUIDEWAY STRUCTURES. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 93. 32192. 1 indexed citations

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Wormley, D. N., et al.. (1992). Interactions between magnetically levitated vehicles and elevated guideway structures. Final report, July 1991-August 1992. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1991). Power management and distribution equipment developed for space applications. Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference. 2. 162–167. 3 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1991). Instrumentation for nonscientists. IEEE Spectrum. 28(1). 56–57. 2 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1991). WHY THE U.S. NEEDS A MAGLEV SYSTEM. BEYOND PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES. Technology Review. 94(3). 1 indexed citations

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Kolm, Henry H., R.D. Thornton, Yoh Iwasa, & Wendell S. Brown. (1975). The magneplane system. Cryogenics. 15(7). 377–384. 19 indexed citations

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Kolm, Henry H. & R.D. Thornton. (1973). Electromagnetic Flight. Scientific American. 229(4). 17–25. 12 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1970). Design Considerations for an Electric Car. SAE technical papers on CD-ROM/SAE technical paper series. 1. 6 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1966). Characteristics and limitations of transistors. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 41 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1966). Handbook of basic transistor circuits and measurements. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1965). Multistage Transistor Circuits. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 42 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D., et al.. (1963). Nanovolt transistor dc amplifiers. Proceedings of the IEEE. 51(8). 1147–1147. 2 indexed citations

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Thornton, R.D.. (1957). Active RC Networks. IRE Transactions on Circuit Theory. 4(3). 78–89. 3 indexed citations

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