Monitoring the magnetic properties of iron for large scale production of superferric magnets

An automated system for measuring critical ferromagnetic properties of iron sections of superferric magnets from low to high magnetic intensities has been developed and used at the Texas Accelerator Center in conjunction with the construction of the superferric SSC magnet prototypes. The system is readily adaptable to production line measurements and would be an indispensable quality control tool in the construction of production steel lamination cores for superferric systems, such as particle accelerators.