High temperature superconductor bulk materials: fundamentals, processing, properties control, applications aspects

With its comprehensive review of the current knowledge and the future requirements in the field, this book presents all the features of bulk high temperature superconducting materials. Starting from physical and chemical fundamentals, the authors move on to portray methods and problems of materials processing, thoroughly working out the characteristic properties of bulk superconductors in contrast to long conductors and films. They provide a wide range of specific materials characteristics with respect to the latest developments and future applications guiding from fundamentals to practical engineering examples. The authors are all leading international specialists involved in the field of high TC superconductor bulk materials since the beginning. Of utmost interest to engineers, scientists, and PhD students working in this fiel

Multiobjective design optimization of an excitation arrangement used in superconducting magnetic bearings

The paper deals with the design optimization of high temperature superconducting magnetic bearings (SMB). The described algorithm allows a multiobjective optimal design with respect to the geometries of the gap oriented excitation arrangement as well as the superconducting bulks