The influence of Hi-flux powders characteristics on the performance of magnetic powder cores was studied. It was found that different cooling rate and nozzle configuration could change the shape and microstructure of powders. Smooth surface and spherical shape of powders were beneficial to improve DC bias performance and reduce core losses of magnetic powder core.

Recent observations have shown that coronal magnetic fields in the northern (southern) hemisphere tend to have negative (positive) magnetic helicity. There has been controversy as to whether this hemispheric pattern is of surface or sub-surface origin. A number of studies have focused on clarifying the effect of the surface differential rotation on the change of magnetic helicity in the corona. Meanwhile, recent observational studies reported the existence of transient shear flows in active regions that can feed magnetic helicity to the corona at a much higher rate than the differential rotation does. Here we propose that such transient shear flows may be driven by the torque produced by either the axial or radial expansion of the coronal segment of a twisted flux tube that is rooted deeply below the surface. We have derived a simple relation between the coronal expansion parameter and the amount of helicity transferred via shear flows. To demonstrate our proposition, we have inspected Yohkoh soft X-ray images of NOAA 8668 in which strong shear flows were observed. As a result, we found that the expansion of magnetic fields really took place in the corona while transient shear flows were observed in the photosphere, and the amount of magnetic helicity change due to the transient shear flows is quantitatively consistent with the observed expansion of coronal magnetic fields. The transient shear flows hence may be understood as an observable manifestation of the pumping of magnetic helicity out of the interior portions of the field lines driven by the expansion of coronal parts as was originally proposed by Parker (1974).

We suggest a possible scenario of an astrophysical black hole with non-vanishing electric charge and magnetic flux. The equilibrium charge on a rotating black hole in a force-free magnetosphere is calculated to be Q ~ BJ with a horizon flux of ~ BM2, which is not large enough to disturb the background Kerr geometry. Being similar to the electric charge of a magnetar, in sign and order of magnitude, both electric charge and magnetic flux are supposed to be continuous onto a black hole.

We have investigated one dimensional steady flow model of a typical magnetic flux tube in the solar transition region constrained to observed Differential Emission Measure (DEM) for the average quiet-Sun deduced by Raymond & Doyle (1981) with a flux tube geometry conforming to Doppler shifts of UV lines measured by Chae, Yun & Poland (1998). Because local heating and filling factor in the transition region are not well known, we considered two extreme cases, one characterized by the filling factor= 1 ('filled-up model') and the other set by local heating=0 ('not-heated model'). We examined how much the heating is required for the flux tube by recomputing a model through adjustment of the filling factor in such a way that 'not-heated model' accounts for the observed DEM.

For obtaining estimates of a total magnetic flux, we propose to use measurements of ∂I/∂⋋. obtained by a modulation method which is formally identical to Stokes V-parameter measurements. In this case the polarization is not analyzed. It is advisable to use in measurements two parts of the spectral line wing.

강구조물에서는 노후화, 과대하중, 반복하중 등 다양한 요인으로 인해 손상이 발생하게 될 수 있는데, 이러한 손상의 초기대응이 늦을 경우 대형사고로 이어질 가능성이 있다. 이러한 이유로 손상을 조기에 탐지하기 위하여 여러 비파괴검사가 진행되고 있는데, 현 검사 기법으로는 대형 강구조물에 적용하기 어려운 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 연속체 형태의 구조물 진단에 주로 사용되는 누설자속 기반 비파괴검사 기법을 적용하였다. 누설자속 기반 비파괴검사 기법의 가능성을 확인하기 위해, 강판 시편에 각각 다른 깊이의 인위적인 손상을 가하였다. 이후 제작한 센서헤드를 시편에 접근시켜 누설자속의 크기를 측정하였다. 이로부터 추출된 신호에 신호처리를 하여 강판의 손상을 검출하였다.

In this study, a magnetic flux leakage (MFL) method that is known as a suitable non-destructive evaluation (NDE) method for continuum ferromagnetic members was applied to detect the various types of local damages of the steel wire ropes. 3types of artificial damages, such as cutting, corrosion and compression, were formed on wire rope specimen. A multi-channel MFL sensor head that can maintain the constant lift-off was fabricated to scan the wire rope specimen. The fabricated MFL sensor head measured the magnetic flux signals from the three types of damaged specimens. The capability of damage detection according to damage type was verified from the measured MFL signals from each type of damage. And, the characteristics of the MFL signals were compared and analyzed by type of damage.

Magnetic flux ropes, often observed during intervals of interplanetary coronal mass ejections, have long been recognized to be critical in space weather. In this work, we focus on magnetic flux rope structure but on a much smaller scale, and not necessarily related to interplanetary coronal mass ejections. Using near-Earth solar wind advanced composition explorer (ACE) observations from 1998 to 2016, we identified a total of 309 small-scale magnetic flux ropes (SMFRs). We compared the characteristics of identified SMFR events with those of normal magnetic cloud (MC) events available from the existing literature. First, most of the MCs and SMFRs have similar values of accompanying solar wind speed and proton densities. However, the average magnetic field intensity of SMFRs is weaker (~7.4 nT) than that of MCs (~10.6 nT). Also, the average duration time and expansion speed of SMFRs are ~2.5 hr and 2.6 km/s, respectively, both of which are smaller by a factor of ~10 than those of MCs. In addition, we examined the geoeffectiveness of SMFR events by checking their correlation with magnetic storms and substorms. Based on the criteria Sym-H < -50 nT (for identification of storm occurrence) and AL < -200 nT (for identification of substorm occurrence), we found that for 88 SMFR events (corresponding to 28.5 % of the total SMFR events), substorms occurred after the impact of SMFRs, implying a possible triggering of substorms by SMFRs. In contrast, we found only two SMFRs that triggered storms. We emphasize that, based on a much larger database than used in previous studies, all these previously known features are now firmly confirmed by the current work. Accordingly, the results emphasize the significance of SMFRs from the viewpoint of possible triggering of substorms.

Steel cables are frequently used for various infrastructures. Especially the steel cables in long span bridges are critical members Damage at cable members can occur in the form of cross sectional loss caused by corrosion and fracture. Therefore, NDE of steel cable is needed to measure the cross-sectional damage. In this study, Total Magnetic Flux sensor system was applied to monitor the condition of cables. This system measures total magnetic flux to detect the loss of metallic cross section area(LMA) of steel cable. To verify the feasibility of this study, 2 types of steel bar were fabricated and their output values measured by the search coil in total flux sensor.