ISSN:
1573-4803
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
Notes:
Abstract Composites containing tungsten wires reinforcing nickel and nickel-iron alloy matrices have been fabricated by a filament winding-electroplating technique and a considerable improvement in the tensile strength was achieved relative to the unreinforced matrix. The presence of the fibres was found to have a significant influence on the magnetic properties of the composites measured in the direction of the fibre axes. In composites having a matrix with a negative magnetostriction, the maximum permeability decreased with increasing volume fraction, V f, and was also dependent on the fibre diameter and the magnitude of the magnetostriction. In cases where the matrix had a positive magnetostriction the maximum permeability was observed to increase with increasing V f, reaching a peak value at V f≃0.1. It was suggested that the presence of stresses induced in the matrix during cooling from the heat-treatment temperature, due to the difference in the thermal expansion between the fibre and matrix, could explain this magnetic behaviour. By theoretical considerations, the peak was shown to coincide approximately with the volume fraction at which the maximum, uniaxial elastic stress was expected to form in the matrix. Above this volume fraction the uniaxial and transverse stresses became sufficiently high to cause plastic deformation in the entire matrix leading to the observed fall in the maximum permeability, although in all cases the value remained above that shown by the unreinforced matrix.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00540265
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