Abstract--React-before-wind surface-coated BSCCO-2212 is being established as a relatively low cost HTS conductor for practical applications.Quality tape is presently being manufactured in lengths of 450 to SOOm at a cost estimated to be 1/3 to 115 of the industry costs of BSCCO-2223 powder-in-tube tape.Robust, mechanically sound coils for applications ranging from NMR insert magnets to transformer windings are being made from this BSCCO-2212 tape.The coils have performed consistently through test and thermal cycling without degradation and as projected from short sample measurements. A hybrid approach, which uses mainly BSCCO-2212 augmented by BSCCO-2223 conductor in the high radial field end regions, is expected to halve magnet system costs.

Beryllia beams were loaded at temperature in four-point bending to a deflection of 0.001 in. or 0.002 in. and the decrease in load necessary to maintain the deflection constant was measured as a function of time. The beryllia was fine-grained, in the range ~-~ 1 to 7 Fm, and the porosity varied between 3 and 21 ~. The test conditions covered a temperature range of 850 to 1240~ experiments took from 10 min to 8 h: the loads used produced initial maximum outer fibre stresses of the order 3000 to 6000 psi.A method was developed for calculating the stress distribution in a beam at any time and this was used to analyse the results. The stress relaxation process was found to be stress-activated, and the conversion of elastic to plastic strain could be expressed as a creep law having the formThe activation energy was 100 • 2 kcal mole-' and the activation volume was large, probably of the order of 103 atoms. The rate constant ko was approximately proportional to the fraction of intergranular porosity and inversely proportional to the cube of the grain diameter. It is suggested that the mechanism of grain boundary sliding is consistent with the observations.

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