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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 18.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Appl Supercond. 2014 Oct 16;25(3):4301205. doi: 10.1109/tasc.2014.2363496

TABLE III.

GDBCO TAPE: PARAMETERS AND PROPERTIES

Non-GdBCO material Hastelloy Cu & others
Overall width/thickness [mm/μm] 6.0/50 6.0/25
Ic @77K [A] > 160
Young’s modulus (E) [GPa] 197 33* [37]
Poisson’s ratio (v) 0.33 0.33
α (77K→4.2K) [%] 0.03 [38] 0.02 [39]
Er, Eh, Ez, [GPa] 73;142;134
Vrh, Vzh, Vrz 0.40; 0.35; 0.18
αr, αh, αz(77K→4.2K) [%] 0.026; 0.026; 0.030
95%-Ic strain @77K [%] 0.6 [40]
95%-I stress @77K [MPa] > 850
Pancake-to-pancake 127-μ thick G-10 spacer:
v = 0.33 [41]; Er = Eh= 36 GPa; Ez = 22 GPa [39]
αr = αh = 0.03 %; αz= 0.07 % [39]
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Assumed all Cu: 165MPa and 0.5% strain @4.2K, 14 T [37].

Thermal contraction: (l77 kl4.2 k)l293 k