§9.

Effect of Surface Condition on Jointing Compressive

Performance in HTc SC Tape

Hashizume, H., Yuki, K., lto, S., Takami, S. (Tohoku Contact surface
Univ.)
Sagara, A., Yanagi, N.

A concept of the remountable superconducting

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·ol superconducling
magnet, which can reduce both costs of the construction the [Unit: mm] cable
maintenance, has been proposed for the future design of the
fusion power plant. HTc superconductors aTe used in this
concept because their robustness against a heat generation Fig. I. Laminated superconducting cable
at the jointing parts allows a direct jointing of the magnet.
The butt jointing method of HTc superconducting magnet 120~~--~---r--~----r-,
and investigations on the butt jointing ofBi-2223 HTc
superconducting tapes have been performed. In this study, ~ 100
the experiment was performed to confirm the degradation ~
of the superconducting tape, especially IO-Iayered c: 80
superconducling cable.
The cable laminated superconducting tape used ~ 60
8
in the butt jointing experiment is shown in Fig. I. Bi-2223
40
HTc superconducting 1Q.layered tape was used as the tape.
The contact surface of laminated superconducting cable
20
was cut down by angle of 45 degree inclined from the tapes.
This shape might be suitable to obtain jointing force from o~--~--~--~--~~
electromagnetic force which is generated by self magnetic o 50 100 150 200
field of superconducting magnet. Stress (MPa)
Firstly, an experiment to evaluate change of the
critical current with increase of compressive stress was Fig. 2. Critical current dependence on compressive stress
performed. In this experiment, the compressive stress acts
on one layer superconducting tape without jointing part.
The results shown in Fig. 2 indicates that the critical 3.90 r-~-~-~-~-...,.,

current stayed constant until about 70MPa, and after that it 3.85 0

decreased alomost linearly. At I OOMPa, the critical current

25 , -_ _..., ~ 3.80 o
decreased about 10 percents of its initial value, i.e., it can ~ 3.75
o 0
00
be predicted that there was the degradation of the ~ 3.70
superconducting tape. Furthermore, once the performance ~
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20
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0::: 3.65
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of superconducting tape was degraded, it never recovers
even though the stress was unloaded.
Secondly, the relation between the contact
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resistance at contact surface and the increase of ~
° 160 180 200 220 240
Stress (MPa)
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compressive stress was evaluated by using the test cables
shown in Fig. 3. The value of current was kept constantly ~ 0C(q,
300A. From the experimental result as shown in Fig. 3, II: 5 .
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decrease of the contact resistance with the increase of .:..............:. l

compressive stress was confirmed. The contact resistance 0

became almost constant from 180MPa. When the stress 0 10050 150 200 250
larger than 200MPa was loaded, however, the contact Stress (MPa)
resistance increased slightly. The reason is considered that Fig. 3. JOIntmg resistance aepenaence on compressive
the effect of degradation by the stress increase exceeded stress
the improvement of joint performance. This value of stress
about 200MPa was lower than 300MPa, which the critical
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current of the cable became 200A. According to the result
I) Hashizume, H.. Fusion Eng. Des. 63-64, (2002) 449
shown in Fig. 3, in the case that 200MPa stress acts on the
cable, the critical current of the cable is estimated about
500A (50A per layer). Following this estimation, there is a
possibility that the current distributed into only 6 layers.

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