TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper focuses on the design of a superconducting quadrupole prototype. This structure includes many frictional contact zones, and the loading conditions are complex (mechanical, thermal and magnetic). A dedicated computational strategy, based on both a decomposition of the structure and an iterative resolution scheme, has been applied to solve this problem. A simplified approach is used to take complex loading conditions into account. The initial set of results, which are presented herein, demonstrates the interest of this approach with respect to classical finite element methods. This study was conducted within the framework of a joint research contract between the CEA (DSM/DPANIA/STCM) and LMT‐Cachan.
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
SN  - 0264-4401
DO  - 10.1108/02644400010313093
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/02644400010313093
AU  - Blanzé Claude
AU  - Champaney Laurent
AU  - Vedrine Pierre
PY  - 2000
Y1  - 2000/01/01
TI  - Contact problems in the design of a superconducting quadrupole prototype
T2  - Engineering Computations
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 136
EP  - 153
Y2  - 2024/05/08
ER  -