For the accurate prediction of the effective thermal conductivities of the twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand,a two-step homogenization method is adopted.Based on the distribution of filaments,the superc...For the accurate prediction of the effective thermal conductivities of the twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand,a two-step homogenization method is adopted.Based on the distribution of filaments,the superconducting strand can be decomposed into a set of concentric cylinder layers.Each layer is a two-phase composite composed of the twisted filaments and copper matrix.In the first step of homogenization,the representative volume element(RVE)based finite element(FE)homogenization method with the periodic boundary condition(PBC)is adopted to evaluate the effective thermal conductivities of each layer.In the second step of homogenization,the generalized self-consistent method is used to obtain the effective thermal conductivities of all the concentric cylinder layers.The accuracy of the developed model is validated by comparing with the local and full-field FE simulation.Finally,the effects of the twist pitch on the effective thermal conductivities of twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand are studied.展开更多
Contact force is related to the mechanical response of superconducting strands under a large electromagnetic body force,which is important for the safety of the international t hermonuclear experimen tai reac tor(ITER...Contact force is related to the mechanical response of superconducting strands under a large electromagnetic body force,which is important for the safety of the international t hermonuclear experimen tai reac tor(ITER)magne t struc ture.Due to the complex st rue ture of the cable-in-conduit conductor(CICC),the component unit of the ITER magnet,and the extreme operating environment,the research on the strand contact force caused by the electromagnetic force has been progressing slowly.In this study,a two-dimensional(2D)theoretical model based on the granular elemen t method is construe ted to compute the contac t forces among some opaque and non-photoelastic ferromagnetic particles which are placed in a non-uniform magnetic field.In the experiment,the contact deformations of these particles may be obtained by the digital image correlation method.We also propose a method,which is similar to the least-squares method,to calculate the electromagnetic body forces of different particles.Subsequently,the distributional and statistical characteristics of the contac t force chains and contact angles are presen ted.It is considered that the method proposed in this paper is suitable for the contact force analysis of the cross section of superconducting strands in the ITER CICC that is subjected to a transverse elec-tromagnetic force.In the end,this 2D theoretical model is generalized to the three-dimensional(3D)case,and the concise mathematical framework is presented.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12172155 and11872195)the Project of Innovation Star for Outstanding Graduates Students of Gansu Provincial Department of Education of China(No.2021CXZX-031)。
文摘For the accurate prediction of the effective thermal conductivities of the twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand,a two-step homogenization method is adopted.Based on the distribution of filaments,the superconducting strand can be decomposed into a set of concentric cylinder layers.Each layer is a two-phase composite composed of the twisted filaments and copper matrix.In the first step of homogenization,the representative volume element(RVE)based finite element(FE)homogenization method with the periodic boundary condition(PBC)is adopted to evaluate the effective thermal conductivities of each layer.In the second step of homogenization,the generalized self-consistent method is used to obtain the effective thermal conductivities of all the concentric cylinder layers.The accuracy of the developed model is validated by comparing with the local and full-field FE simulation.Finally,the effects of the twist pitch on the effective thermal conductivities of twisted multi-filamentary superconducting strand are studied.
基金This work is supported by the fund of Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11872196,11902130).
文摘Contact force is related to the mechanical response of superconducting strands under a large electromagnetic body force,which is important for the safety of the international t hermonuclear experimen tai reac tor(ITER)magne t struc ture.Due to the complex st rue ture of the cable-in-conduit conductor(CICC),the component unit of the ITER magnet,and the extreme operating environment,the research on the strand contact force caused by the electromagnetic force has been progressing slowly.In this study,a two-dimensional(2D)theoretical model based on the granular elemen t method is construe ted to compute the contac t forces among some opaque and non-photoelastic ferromagnetic particles which are placed in a non-uniform magnetic field.In the experiment,the contact deformations of these particles may be obtained by the digital image correlation method.We also propose a method,which is similar to the least-squares method,to calculate the electromagnetic body forces of different particles.Subsequently,the distributional and statistical characteristics of the contac t force chains and contact angles are presen ted.It is considered that the method proposed in this paper is suitable for the contact force analysis of the cross section of superconducting strands in the ITER CICC that is subjected to a transverse elec-tromagnetic force.In the end,this 2D theoretical model is generalized to the three-dimensional(3D)case,and the concise mathematical framework is presented.
