Magnetic shielding of a thin Al/steel/Al composite
ISSN: 0332-1649
Article publication date: 16 April 2020
Issue publication date: 18 June 2020
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the efficiency of a laminated composite for shielding applications. The solution has to be efficient not only for the shield against static magnetic fields but also “for low-frequency ones, in order to be well-suited for applications with electromagnetic perturbations in the frequency range DC to 100 kHz.”
Design/methodology/approach
The composite constituted of a steel sheet taken in a sandwich between two aluminum (Al) sheets is produced by cold roll bonding. A good adherence between Al and steel sheets, ensuring a good mechanical resistance, is obtained with a specific process. A previous study has shown that the optimal trade-off between adherence and magnetic shielding effectiveness (SEH) is obtained with a 230 µm composite produced with an initial thickness of Al and steel sheets, respectively, of 250 and 100 µm. In this paper, the 230 µm Al/steel/Al composite is used in three applications modelized by two-dimensional numerical simulations. To obtain reasonable computation time for the simulations, a homogenization method is applied to the composite. Studied applications are a cylindrical box containing a coil, a square box under an external magnetic field and a high voltage cable.
Findings
In each application, SEH is calculated at low frequency and different materials (Al/steel/Al, Al, steel and copper) are compared. It is observed that, in each application, the composite presents higher SEH at equal mass, especially for frequencies between 5 and 100 kHz.
Originality/value
The proposed approach, from the material point of view to the system consideration, shows that the thin bimetallic composite is an innovative and promising solution for magnetic shielding in the case of applications with both DC and low-frequency perturbations.
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Acknowledgements
This work is supported by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the “Investissement d’Avenir” program, through the “IDI 2016” project funded by the IDEX Paris-Saclay, ANR-11-IDEX-0003-02.
Citation
Clérico, P., Mininger, X., Prévond, L., Baudin, T. and Helbert, A.-L. (2020), "Magnetic shielding of a thin Al/steel/Al composite", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 39 No. 3, pp. 595-609. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-09-2019-0374
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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