Design of an opposing pair magnet system for ASTROMAG

Conference · Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1991 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5858389

Marston, P G; Hale, J R; Vieira, R F; Zhukovsky, A; Titus, P; Sullivan, J; Dawson, A ^[1]

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1. Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Fusion Center

This paper reports on a magnet system comprising a pair of self-supporting disk-shaped coils designed for the ASTROMAG facility on the space station Freedom. The coils are connected in a quadrupole configuration in order to eliminate their dipole moment. One of the primary requirements of this design is that the magnet coils must have near-perfect structural integrity. To this end, each coil would be manufactured as a monolithic composite, in which the superconducting wire is incorporated as one of the components. By utilizing a precision X-Y numerically controlled wiring machine, the coil can be built up in pancake layers, alternating prepreg sheets of fiber/epoxy (e.g., carbon or kevlar fiber) with a layer of NbTi wire that spirals form OD to ID in one layer, from ID to OD in the next, and so on.

• OSTI ID: 5858389
• Report Number(s): CONF-900944-; CODEN: IEMGA
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 27:2; Conference: 1990 applied superconductivity conference, Snowmass, CO (United States), 24-28 Sep 1990; ISSN 0018-9464
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
SPACE VEHICLES
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DIPOLE MOMENTS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
NIOBIUM ALLOYS
SUPERCONDUCTING COILS
SUPERCONDUCTING WIRES
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