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• Broadband investigation (1 Hz-10kHz) on the loss properties and domain dynamics on HGO Fe-Si. Role of the sheet thickness (conventional 0.29 mm vs. novel 0.18 mm thick laminations). • Fluxmetric measurements of hysteresis loops and losses are associated with dynamic high-speed Kerr imaging of the domain structure. • Modeling of loss versus frequency made by keeping into account deep skin effect. • The dynamic response of the array of 180° dws is treated starting from the concept of dw bowing. The dw configuration along the magnetization cycle and its evolution with frequency are obtained by numerical modeling. The magnetic properties of high-permeability grain-oriented (HGO) Fe-Si sheets have been investigated in the frequency range 1 Hz-10 kHz, with attention devoted to the role of thickness on the behavior of the magnetic losses and the phenomenology of skin effect. The study is focused on the wideband response of 0.174 mm and 0.289 mm thick sheets, comparatively tested at peak polarization values ranging between 0.25 T and 1.7 T. The experiments associate fluxmetric measurements with direct Kerr observations of the dynamics of the domain walls. A picture of the magnetization process comes to light, where the dynamics of the flux reversal takes hold under increasing frequencies through the motion of increasingly bowed 180° walls, eventually merging at the sheet surface for a fraction of the semi-period. This effect can be consistently predicted, starting from the Kerr-based knowledge of the equilibrium wall spacing, by the numerical modeling of the motion of an extended array of 180° domain walls, subjected to the balanced action of the applied and eddy current fields, and the elastic reaction of the bowed walls. This model can be incorporated into the general concept of loss separation, by calculating the classical loss component through the solution of the Maxwell's diffusion equation under a magnetic constitutive law identified with the normal DC curve. The numerical domain wall model and the loss decomposition consistently predict that the excess loss component, playing a major role in these grain-oriented materials at power frequencies, tends to disappear in the upper induction-frequency corner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By means of a newly developed broadband measuring setup we have overcome the usual upper limit for the test frequency, around a few hundred Hz, which is encountered in the two-dimensional characterization of magnetic steel sheets at technical inductions and we have measured the rotational losses in low-carbon steels up to 1 kHz and peak induction 1.7 T. An important piece of information is thus retrieved upon a frequency range useful to predict the performance of high-speed electrical machines. Our experiments, performed on thick (0.640 mm) laminations, have brought to light the emergence of the skin effect under rotational fields. This is revealed by an abrupt deviation of the excess loss component, calculated under the conventional loss separation procedure, from its well-known linear dependence on the square root of the frequency. A simple magnetic constitutive law under rotating induction is proposed and introduced into the electromagnetic diffusion equation, which is solved by finite elements coupled to a non-linear algorithm. The classical rotational eddy current loss, largely prevalent with respect to the hysteresis and excess loss components on approaching the kHz frequencies in low-carbon steels, is then calculated in the presence of skin effect, permitting one to achieve full analysis of the rotational losses and good predicting capability upon a broad range of frequencies and peak inductions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We propose a simplified dynamic hysteresis model for the prediction of magnetization behavior of electrical steel up to high frequencies, taking into account the skin effect. This model has the advantage of predicting the hysteresis loop and loss behavior versus frequency with the same accuracy provided by the Dynamic Preisach Model with a largely reduced computational burden. It is here compared to experimental results obtained in Fe-Si laminations under sinusoidal flux up to 2kHz. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]