Trapped magnetic-field properties of prototype for Gd-Ba-Cu-O/MgB sub(2) hybrid-type superconducting bulk magnet

• Published in: Superconductor science & technology Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 34005 - 34012
• Main Authors: Naito, Tomoyuki, Mochizuki, Hidehiko, Fujishiro, Hiroyuki, Teshima, Hidekazu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.03.2016
• Subjects: Borides; FLUXES; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; Magnetic flux; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; Magnetization; MAGNETS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; Mathematical models; PROPERTIES; STAINLESS STEELS; STEELS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
• ISSN: 0953-2048; 1361-6668
• DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/29/3/034005

We have studied experimentally and numerically the trapped magnetic-field properties of a hybrid-type superconducting bulk magnet, which comprised an inner Gd-Ba-Cu-O (GdBCO) disk-bulk and an outer MgB sub(2) ring-bulk, under field-cooled magnetization (FCM) and pulsed-field magnetization (PFM). The trapped field by FCM at the center of the hybrid bulk was 4.5 T at 20 K, which was 0.2 T higher than that of the inner GdBCO disk-bulk without MgB sub(2) ring-bulk. The experimental results by FCM were quantitatively reproduced by the numerical estimations for a model, which makes it possible to understand the trapped field properties of the hybrid bulk. The total magnetic flux by FCM, which was estimated numerically, was enhanced by about 1.7 times from 0.91 mWb of the single GdBCO bulk to 1.53 mWb of the hybrid bulk. We also succeeded in magnetizing the whole hybrid bulk by applying multi-pulsed-fields. The central trapped field of 1.88 T was not enhanced, but the total magnetic flux, which was obtained experimentally, was evidently increased by 2.5 times (0.25 &$\to $; 0.62 mWb) for the hybrid bulk. The obtained results suggest that the hybridization is effective to enhance the total magnetic flux. To confirm the reinforcing effect of the MgB sub(2) ring to the GdBCO disk during the cooling and magnetization processes, we have measured the thermal dilatation, &${\text{}}{dL}({\text{}}T)/{\text{}}L(300\; K)$; , of the GdBCO, MgB sub(2) and stainless steel. As a result, the thermal dilatation of MgB sub(2) was smaller than that of GdBCO. MgB sub(2) ring-bulk shows no compression effect to resist the hoop stress of the GdBCO disk-bulk during the FCM process. The reinforcing material such as the stainless steel ring must be set outside the GdBCO disk-bulk.