The Poloidal Field Conductor Insert (PFCI) of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) has been designed in the EU and is being manufactured at Tesla Engineering, UK, in the frame of a Task Agreement with the ITER International Team. Completion of the PFCI is expected at the beginning of 2005. Then, the coil shall be shipped to JAERI Naka, Japan, and inserted into the bore of the ITER Central Solenoid Model Coil, where it should be tested in 2005 to 2006. The PFCI consists of a NbTi dual-channel conductor, almost identical to the ITER PF1 and PF6 design, 45 m long, with a 50 mm thick square stainless steel jacket, wound in a single-layer solenoid. It should carry up to 50 kA in a field of 6 T, and it will be cooled by supercritical He at 4.5 K and 0.6MPa. An intermediate joint, representative of the ITER PF joints and located at relatively high field, will be an important new item in the test configuration with respect to the previous ITER Insert Coils. The PFCI will be fully instrumented with inductive and resistive heaters, as well as with voltage taps, Hall probes, pick-up coils, temperature sensors, pressure gauges, strain and displacement sensors. The test program will be aimed at DC and pulsed performance assessment of conductor and intermediate joint, AC loss measurement, stability and quench propagation, thermal-hydraulic characterization. Here we give an overview of the preparatory work toward the test, including a review of the coil manufacturing and of the available instrumentation, a discussion of the most likely test program items, and a presentation of the supporting modeling and characterization work performed so far.
1 h promising types of CuiStrinless Steel (SS) inrcrocoiiipositc and Cu-Nb microcomposite winding wircs for lnrge scnled tiigli ficld pulscd mngiicts nrc reviewed.l'hc cstiination o f tlic potentially nchicvnble combinations of mechanical and electrophysicat properties has bceri done. Thc fcatrires o f corresponding manufncturing proccsses foi' CulSS and Cu-Nb wircs arc prescnted. The strength -conductivity propcrtics o f severi4 types of Cu-Nb and CulSS conductors nre given. nolationships Iicfrvcon the microstructure parnmctcrs nnd mechanical pmpcrtics of Cu-Nb wircs arc discusscd. TI*:RT(Room tempcrrture) ultimatc tansilestrength fit thc level of900-1100 MPa and conductivity 50-60% IACS for CulSS conductors with cross-sections up to 40 mm' has bcen attnincd. For Cu-Nb Arcs with 6 nim' cross section the 1 U ultimnte strength cxcccding l4OOMPe hasbeenattained. I. INIXODUCTIONThere are a number of Projects aimed for a devcloptnent of cxtremely high field pulsed magnets [I]. These magnets dcsigned to create magnctic fields higher than 70 T could be cronomically eficientancl couldprovjdc the pulses of field with lengths typically 10 to 100 ms. One of the most important issue to bc resolved for achieving the success in development of cxtremely high field magnet systems is the development of suitablc winding wires with unique combination of mechanical strength and conductivity. The possible candidates for applicatioii as high strength, high conductivity winding wires are dispersion strengthened copper [2], macrocomposite Cu/Stainless Steel wires [5j anµcompositc wires on the base of Cu-Nb [3], Cu-Ag [4]. Investigation and analysis o f some aspccts of possible fabrication proccsses of various advanccd high strength high conductivity conductors has bccn themain goal ofthis prescntntion. A. Macrocomposite Cti/SS condii ctwx Development oFCu/SS wires has already a long history. This conductor was pioneered by Oxford, Clorendon Laboratory more then 15 years ago {6]. Macrocomposite CiiiSS wires seem to not be a very sophisticated matcrial. An initial billet represents a coppercoi'e surroundedby ajacket of stainless steel. Manuscrip reccived Scptcniber 27, 1999. Victor I. Pantsyrnyi SSC RT: Bochvar Rcsearch Insiiliitc of Inorganic Matcrials P.0. BOX 369, Moscow 123060, h i s s i n Teleplionc: (095) 190-82-50, rax: (095) 196-67-01 E-mail: viiiii~m.400~g23.rcIcom.r11 Ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of high piirity annealed Cu equals only to 200-230 MPa. That is why the realimtion of necessary conductor strength could be attained altnost entirely by SS. Taking into account that the characteristic dimensions or SS and Cu components in cross section of this wirc are 2 lp m oiie can apply well known Rule Of Mixhirc (ROM) for calculating of the composite conductor strength and conductivity. The rcsiilts of strength calculations show thsll lor attaining nccessary values of wire strength (1 100-1300 MPa) at 50-60% IACS conductivity (at room temperature) the Ul'S ol' SS component sliouldbc in Ihcrangeof2000-3000 Ml'a,It should bc...
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