Magnetoelastic effects in amorphous Fe40Ni40P14B6alloys

The influence of compressive, tensile, and bending stresses on the magnetization processes, anisotropy energy, and remanence of an as-quenched amorphous Fe40Ni40P14B6ribbon has been studied. The magnetostriction constant has been obtained from the variation of the susceptibility with the applied compressive stress. To better understand the results, domain structures have been observed by using the Bitter technique. Our results show that the Metglas ribbon has a central region with compressive stress, while the edge regions have tensile stress. So, the influence of these regions on the magnetization processes will be very different according to the applied stress.