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The recent investigation and engineering application of YBCO bulk materials

  • Hong, Z;Jiang, Y;Viznichenko, R V;Coombs, T A
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2008
  • The application of bulk superconducting materials to electrical power systems is very attractive because bulk high temperature superconductors offer excellent electromagnetic properties. In recent years there has been significant progresses in the research and fabrication of superconducting bulk materials. Numerous efforts have been made worldwide to make bulk YBCO as a replacement of the conventional magnets to produce larger magnetic field and hence to improve the device performance in electrical power applications. This paper gives a comprehensive review of different applications of bulk HTS materials, concentrating in three areas including superconducting bearing, superconducting motors and high field magnets. The advantages of applying superconducting material into each application are analysed. The status of current research in each section is summarized and examples are given to demonstrate how YBCO bulk materials can benefit the design of electrical devices. Several numerical models which calculate the electromagnetic properties of bulk superconductors are introduced and finally the article concludes with a review on the studies of the demagnetisation effect in superconducting bulk magnets which is extremely relevant to applying superconducting technology to rotating machines.

Recent Development of Bulk High-Tc Superconductors

  • Yoo, Sang-Im
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.04a
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    • pp.88-95
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    • 2002
  • Recent development in the field of RE-Ba-Cu-O (REBCO, RE: Y or rare earth elements) bulk high-Tc superconductors (HTS) is reviewed in the present paper. After the fatal weak link problem of sintered REBCO superconductors has been overcome by melt processing, this field has been greatly advanced during last ten years. The critical current density $J_c$ at 77 K has been enhanced by introducing effective flux pinning sites into the $REBa_2Cu_3O_y$ (RE123) superconducting matrix. Large melt-textured REBCO bulk crystals have been fabricated with the TSMG(top-seeded melt growth) technique. Mechanical properties of REBCO bulks have been improved by using the Ag additive or epoxy resin. Real bulk applications such as current lead, fault current limiter, flywheel energy storage system, magnetic field source, magnetic separation system, and etc., surely come true near future.

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Development of Program for Electro-Magnetic Analysis in Superconducting Bulk (초전도 벌크내의 전자장 해석 프로그램 개발)

  • 한승용;한송엽
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Applied Superconductivity and Cryogenics Conference
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    • 1999.02a
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    • pp.85-88
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    • 1999
  • The study of HTS bulk in permanent magnet applications requires the calculation of forces acting on the bulk. Currents distribution in HTS Superconducting bulk is very important to determine this forces. We have made computer program to find this current distribution and this program is applied to some simple disc-shape HTS bulk being magnetised in a uniform field. The techniques for determination of currents are FEM analysis and iteration method.

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Microforming of Bulk Metallic Glasses : Constitutive Modelling and Applications (벌크비정질합금의 미세성형 : 구성모델과 적용)

  • 윤승채;백경호;김형섭
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.168-173
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    • 2004
  • Microforming can be a good application for bulk metallic glasses. It is important to simulate the deformation behaviour of the bulk metallic glasses in a supercooled liquid region for manufacturing micromachine parts. For these purposes, a correct constitutive model which can reproduce viscosity results is essential for good predicting capability. In this paper, we studied deformation behaviour of the bulk metallic glasses using the finite element method in conjunction with the fictive stress constitutive model which can describe non-Newtonian as well as Newtonian behaviour. A combination of kinetic equation which describes the mechanical response of the bulk metallic glasses at a given temperature and evolution equations fur internal variables provide the constitutive equation of the fictive stress model. The internal variables are associated with fictive stress and relation time. The model has a modular structure and can be adjusted to describe a particular type of microforming process. Implementation of the model into the MARC software has shown its versatility and good predictive capability.

Deformation Behavior of Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glass by Indentation under Different Loading Rate Conditions (다른 하중속도 조건에서 압입에 의한 벌크 금속유리의 변형거동)

  • Shin, Hyung-Seop;Chang, Soon-Nam
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.42-47
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    • 2004
  • Metallic glasses are amorphous meta-stable solids and are now being processed in bulk form suitable for structural applications including impact. Bulk metallic glasses have many unique mechanical properties such as high yield strength and fracture toughness, good corrosion and wear resistance that distinguish them from crystalline metals and alloys. However, only a few studies could be found mentioning the dynamic response and damage of metallic glasses under impact or shock loading. In this study, we employed a small explosive detonator for the dynamic indentation on a Zr-based bulk amorphous metal in order to evaluate the damage behavior of bulk amorphous metal under impact loading. These results were compared with those of spherical indentation under quasi-static and impact loading. The interface bonded specimens were adopted to observe the appearances of subsurface damage induced during indentation under different loading conditions.

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First-Principles Study on the Electronic Structure of Bulk and Single-Layer Boehmite

  • Son, Seungwook;Kim, Dongwook;Na-Phattalung, Sutassana;Ihm, Jisoon
    • Nano
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.1850138.1-1850138.6
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    • 2018
  • Two-dimensional (2D) or layered materials have a great potential for applications in energy storage, catalysis, optoelectronics and gas separation. Fabricating novel 2D or quasi-2D layered materials composed of relatively abundant and inexpensive atomic species is an important issue for practical usage in industry. Here, we suggest the layer-structured AlOOH (Boehmite) as a promising candidate for such applications. Boehmite is a well-known layer-structured material and a single-layer can be exfoliated from the bulk boehmite by breaking the interlayer hydrogen bonding. We study atomic and electronic band structures of both bulk and single-layer boehmite, and also obtain the single-layer exfoliation energy using first-principles calculations.

Prediction and improvement of the solid particles transfer rate for the bulk handing system design of offshore drilling vessels

  • Ryu, Mincheol;Jeon, Dong Soo;Kim, Yooil
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.964-978
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    • 2015
  • Numerous experiments with a scaled pilot facility were carried out to compare the relative bulk transfer performance of three special devices for applications to drilling systems. The pipe diameter for bulk transportation was 3 in., which corresponds to around half of the actual system dimensions. Two different pressures, 3 and 4 bar, were considered to check the relative performance under different pressure conditions at a bulk storage tank. And to make a practical estimation method of the bulk transfer rate at the early design stages of the bulk handling system, a series of experiments were conducted for real scaled bulk handing systems of two drilling vessels. The pressure drops at each pipe element as well as the bulk transfer rates were measured under different operating conditions. Using the measured results, the friction factor for each pipe element was calculated and a procedure for transfer rate estimation was developed. Compared to the measured transfer rate results for other drilling vessels, the estimated transfer rates were within a maximum 15% error bound.