Advances in Cryogenic Engineering Materials: Part A [Paperback]

Review.- The VAMAS Intercomparison in the Area of Superconducting and Cryogenic Structural Materials.- General Superconductor Theory, Measurement, and Processing.- The Resistive State of a Random Weak Link Network.- Bose-Einstein Gas Model for Tc and Energy Gap for Most Superconductors, Especially the Ceramic Oxides.- Flux Creep in Multifilamentary Conductors of NbTi and Nb3Sn.- Theory of Flux Penetration Effects Below Hc1 in Multifilamentary Superconductors.- Integrity Tests for High-Tc and Conventional Critical-Current Measurement Systems.- Conversion of an 11 MN Extrusion Press for Hydrostatic Extrusion of Superconducting Materials.- Low Temperature Superconductors  Nb3Sn.- Strain Effects in VAMAS Round Robin Test Wires.- An Apparatus for Evaluating Strain Effect of Critical Current in Superconducting Wires in Magnetic Fields up to 16.5 T.- The Characterization of Nb3Sn Superconductors for Use in Magnets of 19 T and Greater.- Strain Effect in an Internally Stabilized Multifilamentary (Nb,Ti)3Sn Superconducting Wire.- Effects of Transverse Stress on the Current Carrying Capacity of Multifilamentary Wires.- Further Studies of Transverse Stress Effects in Cable-in-Conduit Conductors.- Jacket Material Evaluation for Nets Wind-and-React Superconductor.- Thermal Contraction of Fiberglass-Epoxy Sample Holders Used for Nb3Sn Critical-Current Measurements.- Development of Nb3Sn Superconducting Wire Using an In Situ Processed Large Ingot.- Manufacture and Evaluation of Tin Core Modified Jelly Roll Cables for the US-DPC Coil.- Bronze-Route Nb3Sn Superconducting Wires with Improved Jc and Reduced Bridging.- An Internal Tin Conductor with Nb 1 wt% Ti Filaments.- Development of Niobium-Tin Conductors at ECN.- Experimental Research Nb3Sn-Based Corrugated Superconducting Tube.- Low Temperature Superconductors  NbTi.- AC Loss Measurements of Two Multifilamentary NbTi Composite Strands.- AC Loss Measurements on NbTi Superconducting Wires for the Vamas Round Robin Test.- AC Losslă+