Degradation and reversibility of critical current due to transverse compressive stress in Ta-reinforced Nb3Sn superconducting strand

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART III, 2005, Pages 3446-3449

  Takao, Tomoaki ^a   Ito, Toru ^a   Umekawa, Kenji ^a   Fukasawa, Yuta ^a   Tanaka, Hideki ^b   Umeda, Masaichi ^b  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compressive stress; Critical current; Nb3Sn

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DISPERSIONS; REINFORCEMENT; STRAIN; TANTALUM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE; MECHANICAL REINFORCEMENT; NB3SN; TRANSVERSE FORCE;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 22044437728     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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