Publications in Scientific Journals:
A.K. Shikov, V.I. Pantsyrny, N.I. Kozlenkova, L. Potanina, R. Vasilyev, I.N. Gubkin, E.V. Nikulenkov, J. Emhofer, M. Eisterer, H. W. Weber:
"The Effect of Thermo-Mechanical Treatments on Jc(T,B) and Tcs of Nb-Ti Strands";
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
19
(2009),
3;
2540
- 2543.
English abstract:
An extended database of critical current densities Jc(T,B) and current sharing temperatures Tcs for Nb-Ti strands was obtained in this work. This data set allows one to make a more realistic forecast of the ITER poloidal field (PF) coil critical current at temperatures above 6 K and in a magnetic field of 6 T. It is found that Jc(4.2 K, 5 T) lies in the range from 700 to 2950 A/mm2, depending on the heat treatment regimes, and that Jc(6.5 K, 6 T) is 28 to 54 A/mm2 almost regardless of the applied heat treatment, i.e. the microstructure does not significantly affect Jc(6.5 K, 6 T) under such ldquoextremerdquo conditions. It is shown, that Tcs(6 T) at a current of 31.2 A, which is close to the assumed operating current for the strand in the ITER PF1&6 coils, is 6.1-6.25 K. It is shown furthermore, that the application of multiparametric functions for the description of Jc(T, B) or V(I, T, B) leads to a reliable prediction of Jc(T, B) only in a temperature and field range, where experimental data points are available (extrapolations result in large deviations).
"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2009.2019134
Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_176932.pdf