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 …

Performance review of the joints for the ITER poloidal field coils

M Breschi, L Cavallucci, H Adeagbo… - Superconductor …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
For large scale magnets wound with cable-in-conduit conductors, the safe operation of the
joints is of paramount importance to guarantee adequate reliability and stability margin of …

JackPot: a novel model to study the influence of current non-uniformity and cabling patterns in cable-in-conduit conductors

EPA Van Lanen, A Nijhuis - Cryogenics, 2010 - Elsevier
JackPot is a new model that is used to analyse how and to what extend current non-
uniformity among strands in a cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) affects its performance …

Optimization of ITER Nb3Sn CICCs for coupling loss, transverse electromagnetic load and axial thermal contraction

A Nijhuis, EPA Van Lanen… - … Science and Technology, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The ITER cable-in-conduit conductors (CICCs) are built up from sub-cable bundles, wound
in different stages, which are twisted to counter coupling loss caused by time-changing …

Test results from the PF conductor insert coil and implications for the ITER PF system

D Bessette, L Bottura, A Devred… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we report the main test results obtained on the Poloidal Field Conductor Insert
coil (PFI) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), built jointly by …

Test results of the ITER PF insert conductor short sample in SULTAN

P Bruzzone, M Bagnasco, D Bessette… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A short sample of the NbTi cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) manufactured for the ITER PF
insert coil has been tested in the SULTAN facility at CRPP. The short sample consists of two …

Contact resistance, coupling and hysteresis loss measurements of ITER poloidal field joint in parallel applied magnetic field

J Huang, Y Ilyin, WAJ Wessel… - Superconductor …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The inter-strand contact resistance and AC losses were measured on an International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) poloidal field (PF) coil joint in a parallel applied …

Transverse cable stiffness and mechanical losses associated with load cycles in ITER Nb3Sn and NbTi CICCs

A Nijhuis, Y Ilyin - Superconductor science and technology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The flexible nature of the cable bundles in the sizeable cable-in-conduit-conductors for ITER
containing more than a thousand strands, in combination with a void fraction of around 30 …

Simulation of interstrand coupling loss in cable-in-conduit conductors with JackPot-AC

EPA Van Lanen, A Nijhuis - IEEE transactions on applied …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the framework of the design analysis of ITER PF coil joints, a model is developed that
simulates the coupling loss between strands in a cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC). The …

Interpretation of conduit voltage measurements on the poloidal field insert sample using the CUDI–CICC numerical code

Y Ilyin, A Nijhuis, HHJ Ten Kate - Cryogenics, 2006 - Elsevier
The results of simulations with the CUDI–CICC code on the poloidal field insert sample
(PFIS) tested in the SULTAN test facility are presented. The interpretations are based on …