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Title: Manufacturing of titanium-bronze processed multifilamentary Nb/sub 3/Sn conductors

Conference · · IEEE Trans. Magn.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6484979

It has been revealed that small amount of titanium addition to the bronze matrix is most effective for improving the high-field current-carrying capacities of bronze-processed multifilamentary Nb/sub 3/Sn conductor. Multifilamentary Nb/Cu-7.5at%Sn-0.4at%Ti round wires with 4-5 ..mu..m-diam 31x331-cores fabricated through drawing process only showed the overall critical current density Jc(overall) over 3.5 x 10/sup 4/ A/cm/sup 2/ at 15 T after the heat treatment at 690/sup 0/C for 200 hr. It was also shown that the critical current anisotropy became larger with increasing aspect ratio of the rectangular shaped multifilamentary Nb/Cu-7.5Sn-0.4Ti conductors. Rectangular shaped 5 ..mu..m-diam 31x361-core Nb/Cu-7.5Sn0.45Ti conductors prepared through double extrusions showed about the same tendencies in the aspect ratio dependence of I /SUB c/ (H /SUB II/ ) as those prepared through drawing process only, after the heat treatment at 690/sup 0/C for 200 hr. 9.5 mm wide and 1.8 mm thick Nb/Cu-7.5Sn-0.4Ti conductors with 5 ..mu..m-diam 349x361-cores have been successfully fabricated in full production scale through three steps hydrostatic extrusion process. These rectangular shaped practical multifilamentary Ti bronze Nb/sub 3/Sn conductors make feasible to generate a central magnetic field over 16 T in the 190 mm winding inner diameter intermediate coil of the 18 T superconducting magnet at NRIM.

Research Organization:
Metal Research Laboratory, Hitachi Cable, Ltd., Tsuchiura-shi, Ibaraki-ken
OSTI ID:
6484979
Report Number(s):
CONF-840937-
Journal Information:
IEEE Trans. Magn.; (United States), Vol. MAG21:2; Conference: Applied superconductivity conference, San Diego, CA, USA, 9 Sep 1984
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English