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Development of High Strength-High Conductivity Cu-6 wt% Ag Alloy for High Field Magnet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2015

Yoshikazu Sakai ,
Takaaki Hibaru ,
Kiyoshi Miura ,
Akira Matsuo ,
Koushi Kawaguchi  and
Koichi Kindo
Yoshikazu Sakai*
Affiliation:
The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Takaaki Hibaru
Affiliation:
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Kiyoshi Miura
Affiliation:
Showa Cable Systems Co., Ltd., Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan
Akira Matsuo
Affiliation:
The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Koushi Kawaguchi
Affiliation:
The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Koichi Kindo
Affiliation:
The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
*
*(Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

One of the authors developed the high strength and high conductivity Cu-24 wt% Ag alloy as a conductor material for high field magnets twenty years ago.Wire and sheet of the alloy have been used as a conductor material for pulsed magnets or resistive magnets of the high magnetic field facilities of each country. However, the alloy required large quantities of Ag addition to achieve high strength. The cost performance and workability of the alloy were not good for that. So, we investigated possibility of low Cu-Ag alloy for decreasing in material cost and improving in workability. We succeeded in the development of the Cu-6 wt% Ag alloy by the new heat treatment which is superior to the characteristic of the Cu-24 wt% Ag alloy even if the amount of Ag content is decreased in 1/4.

At present, we make a lot of high field pulsed magnets by using the Cu-6 wt% Ag wire manufactured industrially, and do that magnetic field experiment and are getting good results at the ISSP, the university of Tokyo. We will talk about the characteristic, new heat treatment method and the manufacturing process of the conductor material for the Cu-6 wt% Ag alloy.

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MRS Advances , Volume 1 , Issue 17: Mechanical Behaviour and Failure of Materials , 2016 , pp. 1137 - 1148
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2015 

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