Hysteresis measurement and generic modeling of magnetostrictive materials under high-frequency excitation and high-intensity bias field

Abstract

The applied DC (direct-current) bias fields can cause the changes of hysteresis and loss properties of magnetostrictive alloys materials, which further affect the output characteristics of electromagnetic devices. This study investigates the impact of high-frequency AC (alternating-current) excitation and high intensity DC bias magnetic field on hysteresis characterization for different magnetostrictive materials. To obtain the hysteresis properties of materials, a generic dynamic magnetic measured system is established, which can test the low-permeability magnetic materials with a DC bias strength range of 0–20000 A/m at AC excitation frequency range of 1–9 kHz. The tested results show that the Terfenol-D, Fe83Ga17, and Fe30Co70 exhibit different DC bias sensitivities, which cause the largest deviation (31.68 %) of losses compared with unapplied DC bias field. To better predict these changes, a generic high-frequency dynamic Jiles-Atherton (J-A) model with the coupling AC excitation and DC bias field is proposed. The AC excitation and DC bias related terms are introduced to characterize distortion and ellipticity phenomenon for these hysteresis loops. A combined method of Simulated Annealing Particle Swarm Optimization-Linear Decreasing Inertia Weight (SA-PSO-LDIW) algorithm and Neural Network (NN) are proposed to identify the introduced relevant parameters. This paper solves the problem of high-frequency hysteresis measurement and loss calculation for low permeability and high electrical impedance magnetostrictive rods-shaped material which can help guide the high frequency application for magnetostrictive materials.