Local eddy current measurements in pulsed fields

This work presents new eddy current measurements in pulsed fields. A commercial point pick-up coil is used to detect the induction signal along the radius of Cu and Al samples with cylindrical shape and diameters between 5 and 35 mm. Local eddy current measurements were performed on the surface of conducting materials due to the small dimensions of the coil. A simple electrical circuit, used as a model, is proposed to describe the local eddy current effect in pulsed fields. The proposed model allows to calculate the phase shift angle between the signal proportional to eddy currents and the applied external field in a pulsed field magnetometer.     

Measurements of AC losses in different former materials

A high temperature superconducting cable may be based on a centrally located cylindrical support, a so-called former. If electrically conductive, the former can contribute to the AC losses through eddy current losses caused by unbalanced axial and tangential magnetic fields. With these measurements we aim at investigating the eddy current losses of commonly used former materials. A one layer cable conductor was wound on a glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) former. By inserting a variety of materials into this, it was possible to measure the eddy current losses of each of the former candidates separately; for example copper tubes, stainless steel braid, copper braid, corrugated stainless steel tubes, etc. The measured data are compared with the predictions of a theoretical model. Our results show that in most cases, the losses induced by eddy currents in the former are negligible. However, for materials with a low resistivity the eddy current losses may become significant, e.g., for high purity Cu or Al.     

Effect of Mesoscale eddies on underwater sound propagation

The effects of sound speed variables induced by an anticyclonic eddy and a field of three cyclonic eddies on long-range sound propagation are investigated respectively. A deep-sea analytical eddy model [Henrick RF, Siegmann WL, Jacobson MJ. General analysis of ocean eddy effects for sound transmission applications. J Acoust Soc Am 1977;62:860-870] is used to determined sound speed distributions produced by warm-core ring in the southwest of South China Sea. Furthermore, the above analytical eddy model is generalize to include the azimuth angle variation and is used to determined sound speed distributions produced by Gulf Stream rings with different strengths. The theoretical temperature fluctuations induced by the warm eddy and a eddy field including three cyclonic eddies agree qualitatively with the in situ investigation data. The transmission loss of acoustic energy through the cross section of the warm-core ring center and three cyclonic eddy centers is simulated using 2-D parabolic-equation (PE) numerical modeling. It is found that the acoustic field has a significant change with variation of the location of SOFAR axis in the presence of the warm eddy and three cyclonic eddies comparing with the scenario of no eddies. When the source is located in the outside of the warm-core eddy and three cyclonic eddies respectively, and the receiver is located in outside of the eddy, the transmission loss as a function of range is investigated at different receive depth. It is shown that the changes of transmission loss caused by the warm-core eddy and three cyclonic eddies are as much as 20 dB than that of no-eddy situation. In the case of three cyclonic eddies, the largest discrepancy of transmission loss is about 40 dB near the range of 45 km for a 25-Hz source being located at a depth of 1500 m.     

Analytical solutions of transient pulsed eddy current problem due to elliptical electromagnetic concentrative coils

The electromagnetic concentrative coils are indispensable in the functional magnetic stimulation and have potential applications in nondestructive testing.In this paper,we propose a figure-8-shaped coil being composed of two arbitrary oblique elliptical coils,which can change the electromagnetic concentrative region and the magnitude of eddy current density by changing the elliptical shape and/or spread angle between two elliptical coils.Pulsed current is usually the excitation source in the functional magnetic stimulation,so in this paper we derive the analytical solutions of transient pulsed eddy current field in the time domain due to the elliptical concentrative coil placed in an arbitrary position over a half-infinite plane conductor by making use of the scale-transformation,the Laplace transform and the Fourier transform are used in our derivation.Calculation results of field distributions produced by the figure-8-shaped elliptical coil show some behaviours as follows:1) the eddy currents are focused on the conductor under the geometric symmetric centre of figure-8-shaped coil;2) the greater the scale factor of ellipse is,the higher the eddy current density is and the wider the concentrative area of eddy current along y axis is;3) the maximum magnitude of eddy current density increases with the increase of spread angle.When spread angle is 180,there are two additional reverse concentrative areas on both sides of x axis.     

一种永磁磁共振中磁体涡流场的测量方法

磁共振成像（Magntic Resonance Imaging,MRI）技术是一种先进的医疗影像技术.在MRI系统中,通过梯度线圈电流快速切换方向,对待测区域施加梯度磁场,产生的梯度磁场会在其周围的金属体内激发出变化的涡旋电场,进而导致金属体内闭合的回路中产生对原来的梯度电流起抑制作用的感生电流,也就是我们所说的涡流.本文介绍了一种测量磁体涡流场的方法,结合电磁感应定律,设计了一种磁体涡流场测量装置,通过硬件采集以及软件处理的方法,将理想梯度场与实际磁场进行相减并将波形实时呈现,实验结果表明该方法可实现对磁体涡流场的测量.     

Finite element analysis of gradient z-coil induced eddy currents in a permanent MRI magnet

In permanent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems, pulsed gradient fields induce strong eddy currents in the conducting structures of the magnet body. The gradient field for image encoding is perturbed by these eddy currents leading to MR image distortions. This paper presents a comprehensive finite element (FE) analysis of the eddy current generation in the magnet conductors. In the proposed FE model, the hysteretic characteristics of ferromagnetic materials are considered and a scalar Preisach hysteresis model is employed. The developed FE model was applied to study gradient z-coil induced eddy currents in a 0.5 T permanent MRI device. The simulation results demonstrate that the approach could be effectively used to investigate eddy current problems involving ferromagnetic materials. With the knowledge gained from this eddy current model, our next step is to design a passive magnet structure and active gradient coils to reduce the eddy current effects.     

被动补偿脉冲发电机涡流损耗的解析计算

在假设转子导电筒中涡流面电流与定子无槽电枢绕组面电流相同、相位相反的条件下,条件麦克斯韦方程组,通过分析被动补偿脉冲发电机导电筒中涡流分布,导出了被动补偿脉冲发电机导电筒涡流损耗的解析表达式,并计算了涡流损耗对25MW样机运行的影响。     

脉冲磁场中波导管涡流影响的数值模拟

 提出了脉冲磁场中波导管涡流影响的数值模拟方案，编制了EDDYC程序，研究了波导管电导率、管径、壁厚和激励电流角频率等对波导管涡流的影响，对将在二极管-速调管实验中使用的不锈钢（1Cr18Ni9Ti）波导管的涡流影响进行了模拟。     

Effect of laser treatment on high and low induction loss components of grain oriented iron-silicon sheets

Power losses of laser scribed GO electrical sheets were measured in the frequency range from 0.05 to 500 Hz and subdivided both into static and eddy current losses, and into low and high induction losses. High induction losses of sheets are increased by laser treatment while low induction losses are increased by a treatment only with very high laser intensity but they are reduced if low laser intensities are used. Low induction losses rise with frequency and high induction losses are nearly constant. Similarly static hysteresis losses are increased by laser scribing while eddy current losses show a similar behavior as low induction losses. It can be concluded that power losses are mainly determined by static losses that increase with defects produced by laser scribing, and the mobility and movement of rigid domain walls while rotation of magnetic moments as well as domain wall annihilation and recreation are having only minor influence.     

Quantitative quality assurance in a multicenter HARDI clinical trial at 3 T

A phantom-based quality assurance (QA) protocol was developed for a multicenter clinical trial including high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI). A total of 27 3 T MR scanners from 2 major manufacturers, GE (Discovery and Signa scanners) and Siemens (Trio and Skyra scanners), were included in this trial. With this protocol, agar phantoms doped to mimic relaxation properties of brain tissue are scanned on a monthly basis, and quantitative procedures are used to detect spiking and to evaluate eddy current and Nyquist ghosting artifacts. In this study, simulations were used to determine alarm thresholds for minimal acceptable signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Our results showed that spiking artifact was the most frequently observed type of artifact. Overall, Trio scanners exhibited less eddy current distortion than GE scanners, which in turn showed less distortion than Skyra scanners. This difference was mainly caused by the different sequences used on these scanners. The SNR for phantom scans was closely correlated with the SNR from volunteers. Nearly all of the phantom measurements with artifact-free images were above the alarm threshold, suggesting that the scanners are stable longitudinally. Software upgrades and hardware replacement sometimes affected SNR substantially but sometimes did not. In light of these results, it is important to monitor longitudinal SNR with phantom QA to help interpret potential effects on in vivo measurements. Our phantom QA procedure for HARDI scans was successful in tracking scanner performance and detecting unwanted artifacts.     

Dynamic strain measurement using two wavelength-matched fiber Bragg grating sensors interrogated by a cascaded long-period fiber grating

In this work, we describe a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensing system using two wavelength-matched FBG sensors for static and dynamic strain measurement. A cascaded long-period fiber grating (CLPG)-based demodulation technique has been used to interrogate the two wavelength-matched FBG sensors. Experimental results of static strain measurement show that the proposed system has a strain resolution of 1 με. This system has also been used for dynamic strain measurement. An eddy current displacement meter-based system has been used as a comparison measurement. Experimental results of dynamic strain measurement have proved that the FBG sensing system has a good performance in the measurement of dynamic strain. The results of static and dynamic strain measurement indicate that the sensing system using two wavelength-matched FBG sensors is superior to the single FBG sensor system.     

脉冲涡流检测瞬态涡流场的时域解析模型

应用Laplace反变换技术建立脉冲涡流检测瞬态涡流场的时域解析模型.首先,基于电磁波的反射与透射理论,应用截断区域特征函数展开式法建立瞬态涡流场的复频域模型,然后通过求解模型极点及其留数应用部分分式展开法求解复频域模型的Laplace反变换,从而建立阶跃型和指数型电流激励下瞬态涡流场的时域解析模型.所建模型具有实现简单、效率高、模型精度不受吉布斯效应影响等优点.最后应用基于Fourier反变换的探头瞬态感应电压模型对本文所建模型,实验结果验证了本文所建模型的正确性.     

交直流叠加磁化下恒导磁薄片的反常涡流损耗

本文利用一致畴转模型分析了在交直流叠加磁化下恒导磁薄片的低频涡流损耗。指出涡流损耗的反常不仅壁移,而且同样存在于畴转。其原因是畴转过程中畴内磁导率是张量,从而比经典模型增加了一项“侧向涡流”。导出了转动涡流损耗反常系数η_r的表达式;并将结果在某些应用领域中作了推广,得出了相应的结论。     

An accurate and simple method of measuring nuclear spin lattice relaxation at low temperatures,applied to60CoFe

Pulsed eddy current heating of a thin Fe foil, cooled by direct contact with the He within the mixing chamber of a dilution refrigerator, is used to measure the nuclear spin lattice relaxation of dilute⁶⁰Co in Fe. This simple method — which gives the true domain relaxation — avoids several difficulties present in other types of experiments, as is shown in a comparison of methods. The field dependence of the Korringa constant is measured between 0 and 10 kG; above 1 kG it is found to approach exponentially a limiting value of 2.27 sK.     

High-frequency permeability of electroplated CoNiFe and CoNiFe–C alloys

We have investigated CoNiFe and CoNiFe–C electrodeposited by pulse reverse plating (PRP) and direct current (DC) techniques. CoNiFe(PRP) films with composition Co_59.4Fe_27.7Ni_12.8 show coercivity of 95 A m⁻¹ (1.2 Oe) and magnetization saturation flux (μ₀M_s) of 1.8 T. Resistivity of CoNiFe (PRP) is about 24 μΩ cm and permeability remains almost constant μ_r′ ∼475 up to 30 MHz with a quality factor (Q) larger than 10. Additionally, the permeability spectra analysis shows that CoNiFe exhibits a classical eddy current loss at zero bias field and ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) when biased with 0.05 T. Furthermore, a crossover between eddy current and FMR loss is observed for CoNiFe-PRP when baised with 0.05 T. DC and PRP plated CoNiFe–C, which have resistivity and permeability of 85, 38 μΩ cm, μ_r′=165 and 35 with Q>10 up to 320 MHz, respectively, showed only ferromagnetic resonance losses. The ferromagnetic resonance peaks in CoNiFe and CoNiFe–C are broad and resembles a Gaussian distribution of FMR frequencies. The incorporation of C to CoNiFe reduces eddy current loss, but also reduces the FMR frequency.     

基于二阶矢量位的矩形截面回折线圈阻抗和脉冲磁场的解析建模与计算

本文基于二阶矢量位建立了回折线圈的阻抗和磁场计算的解析模型,并提出了计算磁场脉冲响应的方法.根据回折线圈用于涡流检测和电磁超声检测时的通用模型,将回折线圈的阻抗和磁场计算问题转化为多个单匝矩形线圈阻抗和磁场的叠加问题.基于二阶矢量位和时谐电磁场方程,推导了回折线圈的频域标势表达式;利用标势与矢量磁位和磁通密度间的关系,推导了计算区域的磁通密度和式样表面涡流的频域解析计算公式;通过计算线圈的感应电势和阻抗变化表达式,得到了线圈阻抗的频域解析表达式;采用FFT-IFFT方法计算了脉冲磁场的时域响应.以一双层双 关键词： 无损检测 回折线圈 二阶矢量位 解析建模     

华北大地涡旋电流现象机理及对管道管地电位影响

一维分块大地周围的特定电性结构能够在该分块大地中产生涡旋电流。通过反演等效电流源并根据实际地形构造大地电性模型, 分析了涡流处的等效电流和电性结构对其特性的影响, 揭示了该特定区域中产生涡流并使得涡流移动的机理; 对铺设在该区域中的输油管道给出了管地电位(PSP) 的分布特征。计算得到的管道PSP与实际监测得到的管道PSP分布规律的一致性表明了涡旋电流能够加重地磁扰动对管道的影响。     

High-frequency nanostructured magnetic materials for integrated inductors

Electroplating is compatible with the deposition of relatively thick layers i.e. several μm to 10s- of μm. However eddy current losses mean that thick layers will have an inferior frequency response. We have used a low content phosphorous bath together with pulse reverse plating to generate Co-rich and Co-deficient multi-nanolayers of CoP having improved saturation magnetisation and a better frequency response. The plating parameters have been optimised in order to produce a material with low loss, and a high permeability of around 700 retained up to 103 MHz for a sample with a thickness of 1.7 μm and a resistivity of 136 μΩ cm.     

Performance of single spin-echo and doubly refocused diffusion-weighted sequences in the presence of eddy current fields with multiple components

Echo-planar diffusion-weighted images can display significant geometric distortions due to eddy current fields. Several preparation schemes have been proposed, which can null eddy currents with a single time constant. The aim of this work was to compare the performance of three such pulse sequences in the presence of multiple components and investigate whether affine registration is capable of correcting for the resulting distortions. A magnetic resonance imaging simulator was used to eliminate potential confounding factors. The doubly refocused sequences showed substantially reduced effects. Applying affine registration to the single spin-echo images leads to reduced residuals, but not to the level observed for the doubly refocused sequences. Modified versions of the standard single spin-echo and doubly refocused sequences performed better than their original counterparts. Affine registration is not sufficient to correct for strong eddy current effects, which should therefore be minimized at source. When the use of a doubly refocused sequence is not possible, a modified single spin-echo sequence should be considered.     

Possible triggering of solar activity to big earthquakes (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Ms</Emphasis>≥8) in faults with near west-east strike in China

This paper studies the relationship between solar activity and big earthquakes (Ms≥8) that occurred in China and western Mongolia. It is discovered that the occurrence dates of most of the big earthquakes in and near faults with west-east strike are close to the maximum years of sunspot numbers, whereas dates of some big earthquakes which are not in such faults are not close to the maximum years. We consider that it is possibly because of the appearance of many magnetic storms in the maximum years of solar activity. The magnetic storms result in anomalies of geomagnetic field and then produce eddy current in the faults gestating earthquake with near west-east strike. Perhaps the gestated big earthquakes occur easily since the eddy current heats the rocks in the faults and therefore decreases the shear resistant intensity and the static friction limit of the rocks.