Harmonic analysis and modelling of magnetisation process in soft ferromagnetic material

The aim of this paper is to present a research of magnetic hysteresis loops of a toroidal ferromagnetic core made of electrical steel. The experimental results of induced voltage, magnetic induction and hysteresis loop obtained at different frequencies of the sinusoidal excitation magnetic field have been presented. The harmonic content of the induced voltage and magnetic induction have been calculated using Fast Fourier Transformation. Observed variation of higher harmonics with frequency has been correlated to the mechanism of magnetic domain walls damping. A variation of harmonics of the magnetic induction with the amplitude of the excitation magnetic field has been analysed and a proper mathematical model has been proposed. Furthermore, the influence of the triangularly shaped excitation magnetic field and the distorted shape excitation that produces sinusoidal induction on the shape of hysteresis loop and harmonic content of the induced voltage and the magnetic induction has been analysed and discussed.

Physical Mechanism of Eddy Current Demagnetizing Effect for Eddy Current Brake

This article researches both the mathematical relation between the braking force of eddy current brake and the speed of the moving conductor and the relationship between the average air-gap flux density and the velocity of the moving conductor respectively which result in the ambiguity of the physical mechanism of eddy current demagnetizing effect. The theoretical methods for obtaining the distribution of the excitation magnetic field, the eddy current magnetic field and the air gap magnetic field of eddy current brake were presented. Then the impacts of the excitation magnetic field and eddy current magnetic field on the distribution of air gap magnetic field were got through contrastive analysis and then the physical mechanism of eddy current demagnetizing effect is obtained. Finally, the influence of the eddy current demagnetizing effect on the design and control of eddy current brake was discussed in depth. The correctness of these theoretical calculations was validated by experiments on the retarder synthetic performance test bench or the finite element numerical calculation.