Low Critical Current Sensitivity of RHQT Nb<sub>3</sub>Al Wires Under Transverse Compressive Stress Up to 300 MPa

Seeber, Bernd; Ferreira, Alexandre; Mondonico, Giorgio; Buta, Florin; Senatore, Carmine; Flukiger, René-Louis; Takeuchi, T.

doi:10.1109/TASC.2011.2108250

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Title		Low Critical Current Sensitivity of RHQT Nb₃Al Wires Under Transverse Compressive Stress Up to 300 MPa
Authors		Seeber, Bernd Ferreira, Alexandre Mondonico, Giorgio Buta, Florin Senatore, Carmine Flukiger, René-Louis Takeuchi, T.
Published in		IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity. 2011, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 2593-2596
Abstract		The critical current of a Nb3Al wire (RHQT process) with a rectangular cross section of 1.81 × 0.80 mm2 has been measured at 4.2 K under transverse compressive loads at fields between 15 T and 19 T. The same wire (HE2432) was previously used for winding an insert coil at NIMS (coil B) that generated 4.5 T in a background field of 15 T at 4.2 K. In this work the load is applied perpendicularly to the narrow side of the conductor and the corresponding stresses reach 300 MPa. The critical current stays almost constant up to 150 MPa and shows a flat maximum around 75 MPa. At 300 MPa the critical current is reduced to 93%, 90% and 88% of its stress free value at 15 T, 17 T and 19 T, respectively. This indicates a rather small field dependence and significant degradation being seen only above 200 MPa. Depending on the field, unloading from 300 MPa yields to an almost complete recovery of Ic between 94% and 97% of its initial value, respectively. These observations are compared to the behavior of a Nb3Sn bronze wire
Keywords		Critical current — Nb3Al superconductor — Transverse compressive stress
Identifiers		DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2011.2108250
Full text		Article (Published version) (569 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE Other version: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=5721754
Structures		Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Groupe de physique appliquée Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Département de physique de la matière quantique
Research group		Groupe Senatore
Citation (ISO format)		SEEBER, Bernd et al. Low Critical Current Sensitivity of RHQT Nb₃Al Wires Under Transverse Compressive Stress Up to 300 MPa. In: IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity, 2011, vol. 21, n° 3, p. 2593-2596. doi: 10.1109/TASC.2011.2108250 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:36278

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Low Critical Current Sensitivity of RHQT Nb3Al Wires Under Transverse Compressive Stress Up to 300 MPa

Low Critical Current Sensitivity of RHQT Nb₃Al Wires Under Transverse Compressive Stress Up to 300 MPa