Thanks! I think I'm going to model the solenoid with the length constraint and let the dimensions of the rect. cross section expand - is this still OK to treat as 4 wires?
Also just a quick question - in the linear expansion formula:
length_final = length_initial * (1 + alpha*(Temp_final -...
Thanks again.
I have used a paper which has calculated the thermal expansion coefficient of copper at different temperatures and put this into the thermal expansion equation for each temperature.
Sorry, by length I mean the length dimension of the solenoid in the figure (so where the turns...
Hi Stefano, thanks for your reply. I've uploaded a diagram of the coil (a X b X length).
The temperature change the coil will experience is quite large, from around -160C to room temp, so thermal expansion is not insignificant enough to ignore. I need to know how each dimension of the coil...
Hi,
I'm trying to model the thermal expansion of a copper rectangular cross sectional solenoid - it has N number of rectangular ring turns and can't be modelled as a normal circular ring solenoid. At the moment I've modelled the rectangular cross section area as 4 rods that each linearly...
