Performance of an ITER CS1 model coil conductor under transverse cyclic loading up to 40,000 cycles

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1489-1494

  Nijhuis, A ^a   Ilyin, Yu ^a   Abbas, W ^a   Ten Haken, B ^a   Ten Kate, H H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bending; Contact resistance; Coupling loss; Cyclic loading; Deformation; Degradation; Nb3Sn; Strain

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; FRICTION; LOADING; STRAIN;

BENDING; CONTACT RESISTANCE; COUPLING LOSS; CYCLIC LOADING; NB3SN;

ELECTRIC COILS;

EID: 4344662722     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2004.830666     Document Type: Conference Paper

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