Updated 01/08/16
This course is now full. If you are interested in being on the standby list for this course, or in a possible future course, please register your interest below.
The Society’s first training course, Designing Magnetic Products, will take place in August 2016. The course will provide an introduction to subjects required to design and manufacture successful applications of magnets.
The course is designed for engineers, scientists or anyone interested in understanding the considerations involved in creating products which use magnets, including specifying, designing, manufacturing and shipping them.
Course content includes:
Short Historical Background
- Maxwell’s equations
Magnetic Properties
- Permanet magnets
- Soft magnetic materials
Production Methods
- Mining of rare earth materials
- Powder fabrication
- Compaction/alignment
- Sintering/curing/heat treatment
- Special shapes
- Cutting, grinding
- Coating
- Magnetisation
- Magnetisation patterns
- Halbach array, sinusoidal, radial magnetisation
- Control measurements
- Typical tolerances
- Deviations from ideal
- Producers worldwide
Cost
- Magnet types: Sintered, cast, bonded
- Magnet materials: NdFeB, SmCo, SrFeO, AlNiCo, SmFeN
- Rare earth materials, availability
- Tolerances
- Coating
- Sizes price and availability
- Special magnetization coil
- Volume
Design of Magnetic Circuits
- The BH-curve
- Temperature, grade
- Reluctance circuits, fringing effect
- Demagnetisation by temperature and current
- Finite elemente analysis
- Forces, torque
- Loss components
- Hysteresis loss
- Eddy current
Practical Aspects
- Gluing/encapsulation
- Assembly, safety, regulations, markings
- Transportation/shipping of magnets
- Long time effects on magnets
- Reuse of precious rare earth materials
Specification
- Specification sheet
- Measurements
- Helmholtz coils
- Hysteresisgraph
- Gaussmeters
Where to Get Help?
- Education
- Consultancy
- Suppliers
Travel
The course is being held at TTE’s office in Harston Mill, Cambridge. Directions and a map can be found here. Parking on site is available.
Accomodation
If you need accomodation, we have a booking with the Hotel Felix, Whitehouse Lane, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0LX, UK NB Sat Nav Postcode: CB3 0LF
Contact me to make a booking, but please do so as soon as possible, as if we get much closer to the course, the rooms may have been filled.
