The effect of DC Joule-heating on magnetic structure of conventional amorphous wires

In this paper, we determined the effect of DC Joule-heating on magnetic structure of conventional amorphous wires starting from the stresses that appear during preparation process. For a specified value of applied electrical DC current to some amorphous wires, we have analyzed the thermal stresses that appear during the thermal treatment and we calculated the radius of axial magnetic domain (cylindrical inner core) that results after the preparation and annealing processes. We have obtained that: (a) the total stresses (owing to the successive heating, crystallization and cooling) depend strongly on the applied electrical DC current and the radius of the wires; (b) the axial magnetic domain is bigger for the wire having a bigger radius; (c) the cylindrical inner core enlarges significantly after DC Joule-heating; and (d) smaller internal stresses are obtained at smaller values of the wire's radius. (c) 2007 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.