Relation between frictional loss and combination of thermal coefficient of bobbins and winding tension in AC superconducting coils

Frictional losses in windings are one of the loss types in AC superconducting coils. When an AC current is supplied to the coil, a superconducting wire in the winding start to vibrate. And frictional heat generates at contact segments between the wire and a coil bobbin. And hence, the losses are not electromagnetic losses such as coupling losses but mechanical losses in superconducting coils. We prepared four types of bobbin materials. Two bobbins expanded during a cooling process from room temperature to liquid helium temperature. The other two bobbins contracted during the cooling down. Winding tensions for the four kinds of coils were 0.5, 3.5, and 5.0 N. And then, the AC losses of the twelve coils were measured. When the coils whose bobbins have thermal expansion were used, the AC losses increased with the gain of the winding tensions, in spite that the experimental conditions such as coil currents and background magnetic field were same. On the contrary, in case of the contraction bobbins coils were used, the losses decreased with the tensions increased. To analyze the experimental cases of the winding tensions of the sample coils at the liquid helium temperature were calculated, and the relation between the tensions at the cryogenic temperature and the frictional losses was discussed.