Transverse stress effects in ITER conductors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART II, 2005, Pages 1371-1374

  Schultz, Joel H ^a   Chiesa, Luisa ^a   Harris, David L ^a   Lee, Peter J ^b   Minervini, Joseph V ^a   Senkowicz, Ben J ^b   Takayasu, Makoto ^a   Titus, Peter ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

ITER; Nb3Sn; Strain control; Superconductor

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DEGRADATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; SOLENOIDS;

CYCLIC DEGRADATION; INTERNATIONAL THERMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR (ITER); MECHANICAL STRAIN; MONOLITHIC CONDUCTORS;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 22044437724     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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