Objectives
- Provide a better knowledge of classical magnetic materials (soft and hard materials)
- Discover new materials
- Choose the material according to the need
Who should attend ?
Engineers and technicians who have to specify or use magnetic materials.
Language
- Copies in English
- Training taught in English
Programme
- Introduction
- Recall of basic laws of electromagnetism
- Magnetisation mechanisms
- Definition of soft and hard materials
- Shape effect
- Presentation of soft magnetic materials
- General introduction / how to choose products
- Main properties (magnetic, electric and mechanical)
- Applications / illustrations
- Costs
- FeSi alloys for laminations
- FeCo alloys, FeNi alloys, Nanocrystalline materials
- Stainless steels
- Others (carbone steel, Compacted powders,…)
- Hard materials
- Main families of hard materials (AlNiCo, ferrites, SmCo, NdFeB, bonded magnets)
- Properties (Remanence flux density, coercive field)
- Characterisation of soft magnetic materials
- Measurement of flux density and magnetic flux
- Measurement of permeability
- Measurement of hysteresis cycle and iron losses
- Introduction in physical principles of specific magnetic materials
