The growing interest in ferromagnetic shape-memory Ni-Mn-Ga for implementation in actuator applications originates from the fact that this class of materials exhibits large strains when driven by a magnetic field. Large bidirectional strains up to a theoretical 6% are produced in these materials by twin boundary motion as martensite variants rotate to align respectively parallel or perpendicula...

It is known that the substitution of Co for Fe gives rise to increases in magnetization and Curie temperature, not only in the bcc metals, but also in intermetallic compounds and alloys as well. With the expectation that this is the case in Co-substituted FeGa, we measured magnetization, Curie temperature, magnetostriction and elastic constants of a series of polycrystalline FeCoGa ternary allo...

The performance of vibration power generation using the inverse magnetostrictive effect increases with increasing its device size. In this study, grain-oriented electrical steel that can be largely produced was investigated as a core material, U-shaped unimorph at laboratory scale. (16 mm long 1.4 mm2 cross-section) rolling direction (RD) along stress exhibited effective open-circuit voltage 0....

The existence of a deformation and magnetization minimizing the magnetostrictive free energy is given. Mathematical challenges are presented by a free energy that includes elastic contributions defined in the reference configuration and magnetic contributions defined in the spatial frame. The one-to-one a.e. and orientation-preserving property of the deformation is demonstrated, and the satisfa...

The present paper describes the work done at SLAC for the magnetostrictive wire spark chambers of SPEAR, LASS and the two-meter streamer chamber. All three are CAMAC systems based on the use of a time digitizer module with different interfacing techniques into three different computers (Sigma 5, PDP-9, PDP-11). Of particular interest is a display controller module that permits wide selection of...