Challenges and status of ITER conductor production

A Devred, I Backbier, D Bessette… - Superconductor …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Taking the relay of the large Hadron collider (LHC) at CERN, ITER has become the largest
project in applied superconductivity. In addition to its technical complexity, ITER is also a …

Cable-in-conduit conductors: lessons from the recent past for future developments with low and high temperature superconductors

L Muzzi, G De Marzi, A Di Zenobio… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We review progress in the design of high field superconducting cable-in-conduit conductors
(CICCs) for fusion applications, with special attention to the results of recent key …

The use of Nb3Sn in fusion: lessons learned from the ITER production including options for management of performance degradation

N Mitchell, M Breschi, V Tronza - Superconductor Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The overall 30 year Nb 3 Sn conductor program for ITER provides an unusual
opportunity to look at the issues created by the application of novel Nb 3 Sn technology on a …

Nonlinear static and dynamic mechanical behaviors of Nb3Sn superconducting composite wire: experiment and analysis

L Jiang, X Zhang, YH Zhou - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, the nonlinear mechanical behaviors of Nb3Sn superconducting composite
wires have been investigated by the quasi-static loading-unloading tensile and fatigue tests …

Formation and propagation of cracks in RRP Nb3Sn wires studied by deep learning applied to x-ray tomography

T Bagni, D Mauro, M Majkut, A Rack… - Superconductor …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports a novel non-destructive and non-invasive method to investigate crack
formation and propagation in high-performance Nb 3 Sn wires by combining x-ray …

Overview of verification tests on AC loss, contact resistance and mechanical properties of ITER conductors with transverse loading up to 30 000 cycles

KA Yagotintsev, WAJ Wessel, A Vostner… - Superconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The ITER magnet system uses cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) technology with individual
strands twisted in several stages resulting in a rope-type cable, which is inserted into a …

Micromechanical modelling on the elastoplastic damage and irreversible critical current degradation of the twisted multi-filamentary Nb3Sn superconducting strand

Z Jing, Y Zhang - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2024 - Springer
Due to its superior current carrying capacity at the high magnetic field larger than 10 T,
Nb3Sn is widely accepted as the enabling technology for high field superconducting …

Performance analysis of the toroidal field ITER production conductors

M Breschi, D Macioce, A Devred - Superconductor Science and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The production of the superconducting cables for the toroidal field (TF) magnets of the ITER
machine has recently been completed at the manufacturing companies selected during the …

Study of thermo-elasto-plastic behaviors of twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strands and structures using incremental Mori-Tanaka method

Y Wang, H Yong, Y Zhou - Cryogenics, 2024 - Elsevier
An efficient estimation of the thermo-elasto-plastic behaviors of twisted multi-filamentary
superconducting strands and structures is crucial for the superconducting conductor design …

Optimization of CFETR CSMC cabling based on numerical modeling and experiments

J Qin, C Dai, B Liu, Y Wu, F Liu, G Liao… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a new tokamak device,
whose magnet system includes toroidal field (TF), central solenoid (CS) and poloidal field …