Ridgeon, F.J. and Raine, M.J. and Halliday, D.P. and Lakrimi, M. and Thomas, A. and Hampshire, D.P. (2017) 'Superconducting properties of titanium alloys (Ti-64 and Ti-6242) for critical current barrels.', IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity., 27 (4). p. 4201205.
Abstract
We have measured the superconducting properties of the titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V (Ti-64) as-supplied and following two of the heat treatment schedules used for the Nb3Sn strands in the ITER tokamak. The Ti-64 alloy is the standard choice in the superconducting community for the barrels used to make critical current (IC) measurements in high magnetic fields at cryogenic temperatures. Ti-64, which has a two-phase alpha + beta microstructure and contains vanadium (n.b. TC(V) ~ 5.4 K), is superconducting at 4.2 K in fields up to 3 T. We have also measured Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo-0.2Si (Ti-6242), which is in the near alpha phase and contains tin (n.b. TC(Sn) ~ 3.7 K). The critical temperature of Ti-6242 is 2.38 K which is lower than the 5.12 K of Ti-64. Hence Ti-6242 is a better choice of barrel material for IC measurements required at 4.2 K in low fields up to 3 T, because it remains in the normal state.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Research data is available in the Collections (DRO-DATA) digital repository: https://doi.org/10.15128/gh93gz498 |
| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (761Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2016.2645378 |
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| Date accepted: | 17 November 2016 |
| Date deposited: | 22 November 2016 |
| Date of first online publication: | 26 December 2016 |
| Date first made open access: | 22 November 2016 |
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