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Influence parameters of impact grinding mills
Significant parameters for impact grinding mills were investigated. Final particle size was used to evaluate grinding results. Adjustment of the parameters toward increased charge load results in improved efficiency; however, it was not possible to define a single, unified set to optimum grinding conditions
High transport currents in mechanically reinforced MgB2 wires
We prepared and characterized monofilamentary MgB2 wires with a mechanically
reinforced composite sheath of Ta(Nb)/Cu/steel, which leads to dense filaments
and correspondingly high transport currents up to Jc = 10^5 A/cm^2 at 4.2 K,
self field. The reproducibility of the measured transport currents was
excellent and not depending on the wire diameter. Using different precursors,
commercial reacted powder or an unreacted Mg/B powder mixture, a strong
influence on the pinning behaviour and the irreversibility field was observed.
The critical transport current density showed a nearly linear temperature
dependency for all wires being still 52 kA/cm^2 at 20 K and 23 kA/cm^2 at 30 K.
Detailed data for Jc(B,T) and Tc(B) were measured.Comment: 21 pages, 13 figures, revised version, to be published in Supercond.
Sci. Techno
Mechanically reinforced MgB2 wires and tapes with high transport currents
Monofilamentary MgB2-wires with a 2- or 3-component sheath containing
mechanical reinforcing stainless steel (SS) were prepared and characterized. In
direct contact to the superconductor Nb, Ta or Fe was used. For a selection of
samples with a Fe and Fe/SS sheath, we investigated the transport critical
current behaviour in magnetic fields changing systematically the geometrical
shape from a round wire to a flat tape. A strong increase of the current
densities in flat tapes was observed and possible reasons for this are
discussed. Reinforcing the sheath in the outer layer with different amounts of
stainless steel leads to a systematic field dependent decrease of the transport
critical current density with increasing steel amount. This is an indication
for a pre-stress induced degradation of the critical currents in MgB2 wires and
first Ic-stress-strain experiments seem to confirm this observation and
interpretation.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Physica C (Proceedings of EUCAS
2001
Neutron irradiation of coated conductors
Various commercial coated conductors were irradiated with fast neutrons in
order to introduce randomly distributed, uncorrelated defects which increase
the critical current density, Jc, in a wide temperature and field range. The
Jc-anisotropy is significantly reduced and the angular dependence of Jc does
not obey the anisotropic scaling approach. These defects enhance the
irreversibility line in not fully optimized tapes, but they do not in
state-of-the-art conductors. Neutron irradiation provides a clear distinction
between the low field region, where Jc is limited by the grain boundaries, and
the high field region, where depinning leads to dissipation
Fabrication and transport critical currents of multifilamentary MgB2/Fe wires and tapes
Multifilamentary MgB2/Fe wires and tapes with high transport critical current
densities have been fabricated using a straightforward powder-in-tube (PIT)
process. After annealing, we measured transport jc values up to 1.1 * 105 A/cm2
at 4.2 K and in a field of 2 T in a MgB2/Fe square wire with 7 filaments
fabricated by two-axial rolling, and up to 5 * 104 A/cm2 at 4.2 K in 1 T in a
MgB2/Fe tape with 7 filaments. For higher currents these multifilamentary wires
and tapes quenched due to insufficient thermal stability of filaments. Both the
processing routes and deformation methods were found to be important factors
for fabricating multifilamentary MgB2 wires and tapes with high transport jc
values.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
Adiabatic normal zone development in MgB2 superconductors
A-priori knowledge of the normal zone development in MgB/sub 2/ conductors is essential for quench protection of applications. Therefore the normal zone propagation in a monofilament MgB/sub 2//Fe conductor under near-adiabatic conditions at 4.2 K has been measured and simulated. The results show normal zone propagation velocities up to several meters per second. In addition, by including the voltage-current relation into the computational model, the influence of the n-value on the normal zone propagation is determined. The simulations show that lower n-values suppress the normal zone propagation velocity due to lower heat generation in the MgB/sub 2/ filaments
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