''Football'' test coil: a simulated service test of internally-cooled, cabled superconductor

Conference · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981 · IEEE Trans. Magn.; (United States)

OSTI ID:6243178

Marston, P G; Iwasa, Y; Thome, R J; Hoenig, M O

Internally-cooled, cabled superconductor, (ICCS), appears from small-scale tests to be a viable alternative to pool-boiling cooled superconductors for large superconducting magnets. Potential advantages may include savings in helium inventory, smaller structure and ease of fabrication. Questions remain, however, about the structural performance of these systems. The ''football'' test coil has been designed to simulate the actual ''field-current-stress-thermal'' operating conditions of a 25 ka ICCS in a commercial scale MHD magnet. The test procedure will permit demonstration of the 20 year cyclic life of such a magnet in less than 20 days. This paper describes the design, construction and test of that coil which is wound of copper-stabilized niobium-titanium cable in steel conduit. 2 refs.

• Research Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
• OSTI ID: 6243178
• Report Number(s): CONF-810340-
• Journal Information: IEEE Trans. Magn.; (United States), Vol. MAG-17:5; Conference: 7. international conference on magnet technology, Karlsrube, F.R. Germany, 30 Mar 1981
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
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SIMULATION
TITANIUM ALLOYS
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CABLES
CONDUCTOR DEVICES
ELECTRIC CABLES
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