Download or read book Classical Losses in Soft Magnetic Composites Using Homogenization Techniques, Anglais written by Xiaotao Ren and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composite materials have been widely used in Electrical Engineering, and they have stimulated a growing number of scientific research, especially when it comes to energy savings. Soft Magnetic Composites (SMC) incorporate the attributes of different constituents. They can be designed to exhibit high permeability and to dissipate low Eddy Current (EC) losses compared to more conventional structures such as laminated steel. Nevertheless, electromagnetic properties of SMC are not easily determined. Numerical tools such as finite element method (FEM) are usually employed to provide a full-field description of SMC. As the microstructure has to be finely meshed, it brings significant numerical burden and instabilities. To overcome this restriction, semi-analytical homogenization methods are adapted and applied here. They consist in developing a complex permeability model. In the complex permeability model for SMC, the static magnetic permeability and EC losses are integrated respectively as the real and imaginary part of the complex permeability. Classical estimates are applied to determine the macroscopic effective magnetic permeability. A correct determination of the effective permeability, i.e. the real part of the complex permeability, is crucial for the estimate of EC losses. EC losses formulas are derived for SMC with periodic microstructure in 2D and 3D cases. Furthermore, different approaches of field averaging are employed to obtain lower and upper bounds on the EC losses in SMC. The complex permeability model is then applied to analyze a transformer structure. The magnetic field and EC losses distribution can be obtained on the equivalent homogenized transformer. The results are compared to the full-field calculations on the heterogeneous transformer. A good consistency is observed. Finally, the effect of mechanical stress on the magnetic permeability and loss property of SMC is studied, which leads to a coupled formula of EC loss density as a function of macroscopic stress and magnetic field.