Severe plastic deformation of bulk Nb for Nb3Sn superconductors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART III, 2005, Pages 3438-3441

  Mathaudhu, Suveen N ^a   Blum, Stefanie ^b   Barber, Robert E ^a   Hartwig, K Ted ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion barrier; ECA; Nb3Sn; Niobium; Severe plastic deformation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; EXTRUSION; HARDNESS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

DIFFUSION BARRIER; MULTIPASS ROUTE; SEVERE; SQUARE BARS;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 22044449221     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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