Modeling of the effect of Nb3Sn strand composition on thermal strains and superconducting performance

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART III, 2005, Pages 3572-3576

  Mitchell, N ^a  

^a ITER International Team   (Japan)

Author keywords

Low temperature superconductor; Strain; Stress analysis; Superconducting performance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

DIFFERENTIAL EXPANSION; LOW TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING PERFORMANCE; THERMAL STRAIN;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 22144448532     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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