Superconducting materials and conductors: fabrication and limiting parameters

L Bottura, A Godeke - Reviews of accelerator science and …, 2012 - World Scientific
Superconductivity is the technology that enabled the construction of the most recent
generation of high-energy particle accelerators, the largest scientific instruments ever built …

The effect of axial and transverse loading on the transport properties of ITER Nb3Sn strands

A Nijhuis, RPP van Meerdervoort… - Superconductor …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The differences in thermal contraction of the composite materials in a cable in conduit
conductor (CICC) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), in …

Degradation of I c due to residual stress in high-performance Nb3Sn wires submitted to compressive transverse force

C Senatore, T Bagni, J Ferradas-Troitino… - Superconductor …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Future particle colliders in search for new physics at the energy frontier require the
development of accelerator magnets capable of producing fields well beyond those …

Effects of the initial axial strain state on the response to transverse stress of high-performance RRP Nb3Sn wires

JF Troitino, T Bagni, C Barth, B Bordini… - Superconductor …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract High-performance Nb 3 Sn superconducting wires have become one of the key
technologies for the development of next generation accelerator magnets. While their large …

[HTML][HTML] Implications of the strain irreversibility cliff on the fabrication of particle-accelerator magnets made of restacked-rod-process Nb3Sn wires

N Cheggour, TC Stauffer, W Starch, LF Goodrich… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
The strain irreversibility cliff (SIC), marking the abrupt change of the intrinsic irreversible
strain limit ε irr, 0 as a function of heat-treatment (HT) temperature θ in Nb 3 Sn …

Investigating the effect of rolling deformation on the electro-mechanical limits of Nb3Sn wires produced by RRP® and PIT technologies

T Bagni, C Calzolaio, G Bovone… - Superconductor …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Future high-field magnets for particle accelerators hinge on the crucial development of
advanced Nb 3 Sn wires engineered to withstand the large stresses generated during …

Critical Current Measurements of High- Rutherford Cables Under Transverse Compression

B Bordini, P Alknes, A Ballarino… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the LHC upgrade, CERN has launched a large program to develop next generation
accelerator magnets based on high-Jc Nb3 Sn Rutherford cables. These magnets are …

Electro-mechanical properties of PIT Nb3Sn wires under transverse stress: experimental results and FEM analysis

C Calzolaio, G Mondonico, A Ballarino… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Nowadays there is a great deal of interest in the scientific community in developing next-
generation accelerator magnets based on high-J c Nb 3 Sn Rutherford cables. Inside a …

Strain sensitivity and superconducting properties of Nb3Sn from first principles calculations

G De Marzi, L Morici, L Muzzi… - Journal of Physics …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Using calculations from first principles based on density-functional theory we have studied
the strain sensitivity of the A15 superconductor Nb 3 Sn. The Nb 3 Sn lattice cell was …

Determination of the electromechanical limits of high-performance Rutherford cables under transverse stress from a single-wire experiment

L Gämperle, J Ferradas, C Barth, B Bordini… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
The development of high-field accelerator magnets capable of providing 16-T dipolar fields
is an indispensable technological breakthrough needed for the 100-TeV energy frontier …