Refinements in billet design for SSC strand

Author

Valaris, P. ; Kreilick, T.S. ; Gregory, E. ; Wong, Johnson

Author_Institution

Supercon. Inc., Shrewsbury, MA, USA

Volume

25

Issue

2

fYear

1989

fDate

3/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1937

Lastpage

1939

Abstract

Refinements in the design of superconducting strand to be used in the manufacture of magnets for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) are described that have considerably improved performance characteristics in key areas; first, by maintaining geometric uniformity and second, by contributing to piece length yield. With 2.5-μm-diameter filaments and a copper-to-superconductor ratio of 1.8:1, the total number of filaments required is ~23000. Stacking hexagon units and reducing the amount of void space has enabled the production of largely uniform arrays and consequently uniform spacing. A strand with ~23000 fine filaments has been produced with a mostly uniform filament array

Keywords

composite superconductors; copper; niobium alloys; storage rings; superconducting magnets; synchrotrons; titanium alloys; type II superconductors; 2.5 micron; NbTi; NbTi-Cu; SSC strand; Superconducting Super Collider; billet design; filament diameter; geometric uniformity; hexagon units; magnets; performance characteristics; piece length yield; superconducting strand; uniform filament array; void space; Assembly; Billets; Copper; Multifilamentary superconductors; Optical coupling; Refining; Stacking; Superconducting filaments and wires; Superconducting magnets; Superconducting materials;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/20.92686

Filename

92686