Critical currents of Nb3Sn wire subject to applied transverse stress

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART III, 2005, Pages 3454-3457

  Kitaguchi, Hitoshi ^a   Kimura, Satoshi ^b   Shimonosono, Tsutomu ^b   Hanai, Satoshi ^b   Takeuchi, Takao ^a   Inoue, Kiyoshi ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Critical currents; Nb3Sn; Strain effects; Superconducting filaments and wires; Superconducting materials measurements

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; EXTRAPOLATION; INSULATION; PLASTIC FILAMENTS;

KRAMER EXTRAPOLATION; STRAIN EFFECTS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILAMENTS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIAL MEASUREMENT;

SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE;

EID: 22044457187     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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