Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Mechanical Analyses of the Superconducting Outsert of the LNCMI Hybrid Magnet

Current technical superconductors, such as Nb
₃
Sn, are limited to fields around 20 T by their intrinsic material properties. Generating significantly stronger magnetic fields can only be done by using resistive magnets, or by combining superconducting and resistive magnets (hybrid magnets), at the expense of large power consumption and operating cost. A CEA-CNRS French collaboration is currently developing a new hybrid magnet, which combines a resistive insert composed of Bitter and polyhelix coils and a new large-bore superconductor outsert to produce an overall continuous magnetic field of more than 42 T in a 34-mm warm aperture. Based on the novel development of a NbTi/Rutherford cable on conduit (RCOCC) cooled down to 1.8 K by means of the bath of superfluid helium at atmospheric pressure, the superconducting coil aims to produce a continuous magnetic field of 8.5 T in a 1.1-m cold bore diameter. This paper summarizes the results of the mechanical behavior study of the cold mass cooled from room to operating temperature and Lorentz forces at operating temperature. Computations have been performed in 2-D axisymmetry and 3-D, to take into account the axisymmetric discontinuous distribution of the tie rods.