“…Accurate determination of the iron-loss in the magnetic cores of electrical machines and transformers is of great importance, specifically to allow one to reduce the iron-loss by appropriate design measures in the magnetic circuit, and by the choice of suitable materials [1]- [8]. However, the multifarious and intricate physical mechanisms in different magnetic materials, combined with complex flux waveforms in electrical machines, hamper the development of appropriate methods for predicting the iron-loss and the magnetic field distribution [6], [9]- [12]. This is exacerbated by the fact that material data, i.e., iron-loss and magnetization curves, supplied by the data sheet or acquired through standardized measurements under sinusoidal magnetic flux density waveform, do not apply for the magnetic components of inverter-driven electrical energy converters and rotating electrical machines.…”