Title :
Trial Manufacture of a km Class Length of Cu Cladding RHQT

Flat-Wire
Author :
Tagawa, K. ; Takeuchi, T. ; Banno, N. ; Iijima, Y. ; Kikuchi, A. ; Kitaguchi, H. ; Iwaki, G. ; Sakurai, Y.
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. for Mater. Sci., Tsukuba
fDate :
6/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We have produced so far about a 400 m length of Cu stabilized RHQT (rapid-heating, quenching and transformation) Nb3Al flat-wire using a small-sized multi-billet (10 kg). Although our goal is to make a 2.5 km unit length of Cu cladding flat-wire for high-field NMR uses, an attempt was made to fabricate a 1 km class unit-length of conductor as a milestone of commercialization. A long-length of precursor wire over 2.5 km was prepared by using a large-sized multi-billet (50 kg). A 1.3 km length RHQ operation by using a newly installed large-scale RHQ apparatus was performed and then a km-class length Cu cladded flat-wire was fabricated to evaluate the uniformity of resultant superconducting characteristics of wire
Keywords :
aluminium alloys; billets; claddings; niobium alloys; quenching (thermal); superconducting materials; wires; Cu cladded RHQT Nb3Al flat-wire; Cu stabilized transformation; Nb3Al; high-field NMR; multibillet; superconducting wire; Assembly; Billets; Capacitive sensors; Manufacturing; Materials science and technology; Niobium; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Superconducting coils; Superconducting filaments and wires; Superconducting magnets; Cu stabilizer; Nb/(Nb/Al) precursor wire; RHQ operation; non-Cu Jc;
Journal_Title :
Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASC.2005.864291