Research on Stress Characteristics of Shunt Reactor Considering Magnetization and Magnetostrictive Anisotropy

In order to reduce the vibration of shunt reactors with gapped iron-core structure, accurate stress computation should be carried out. The magnetization and magnetostrictive anisotropy should be considered in the calculation. In this paper, the magnetization and magnetostrictive properties of non-oriented silicon steel sheets along the rolling direction and the transverse direction are first measured by a magnetization and magnetostriction tester. Based on the measurement results, an electromagneto–mechanical coupled numerical model for shunt reactors, considering magnetization and magnetostrictive anisotropy, has been developed. Then, the stress distribution of the reactor core is calculated and that between isotropy and anisotropy numerical model is compared. From the computation results, it can be seen that magnetization and magnetostrictive anisotropy greatly influences the stress distribution of the reactor core.