학술논문

Effect of Laminate Cutting and Annealing Treatment on the Magnetic Properties of Fe49Co49V2 Alloy
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics IEEE Trans. Magn. Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on. 57(8):1-13 Aug, 2021
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Laminates
Annealing
Metals
Magnetic properties
Laser beam cutting
Punching
Measurement by laser beam
Electrical discharge machining (EDM)
electrical machine
FeCo alloy
laser cutting
magnetic properties
punching
Language
ISSN
0018-9464
1941-0069
Abstract
The Fe 49 Co 49 V 2 alloy is a soft magnetic material commonly used in high-performance electrical machines in form of a laminate made of stacked thin sheets. Laminate preparation inevitably induces defects along the cut edge, which will deteriorate the magnetic properties of the alloy. Three laminate cutting methods, namely, punching, electrical discharge machining (EDM), and laser cutting, have been assessed for their impact on the magnetic properties of the laminates. The effect of annealing treatment before and after the cutting process was also studied. The magnetic properties of the ring laminate samples were measured under a frequency of 400 Hz at room temperature. The grain size and local misorientation were evaluated by electron backscattering diffraction (EBSD). Our study indicates that grain boundary and local misorientation within the grains are key considerations when assessing the deterioration of the soft magnetic properties. The mean grain size along the edge of laser-cut laminates with a post-annealing treatment was about $29.3~\mu \text{m}$ , larger than that in the center area of about $24~\mu \text{m}$ . This process route also exhibited the lowest fraction of local misorientation of greater than 0.5° along the edge area. As a result, laminates produced by laser cutting followed by a post-annealing treatment displayed the best magnetic performance among all investigated manufacturing routes.