Reduce Nb3Sn Strand Deformation when Fabricating High Jc Rutherford Cables
During Phase I, our efforts were to reduce subelements deformation when fabricating Nb3Sn Rutherford cables. Our first focus is on 217-sublement tube type strand. We successfully made a few billets in OD tube with different Cu spacing between subelements, and supplied the strands to Fermi Lab for cabling. Through the rolling test characterization, these types of strands did not have enough bonding between subelements to withstand the deformation. We saw copper cracking between subelements in the deformed strands. We scaled up the billet from OD to 1.5 OD, and made two billets. This greatly improves the bonding. There is no copper cracking in the deformed strands when we scaled up the diameter of the billets. Fermi Lab successfully made cables using one of this improved strands. In their cables, no Cu cracking and no filament bridging occurred. We also successfully made a couple of billets with hex OD and round ID subelements for 61-subelement restack. Due to the lack of bonding, we could not judge its cabling property properly. But we know through this experiment, we could keep the Nb round, once we select the proper Cu spacing.
- Research Organization:
- Hyper Tech Research, Inc
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- SC0006230
- OSTI ID:
- 1057490
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC0006230; 1080 Final Technical Report
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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