Presentazioni e Articoli Tecnici

The high-temperature superconducting magnet (HTS) is one of the core technologies of a superconducting maglev. The effects of multiphysics fields including electromagnetic, mechanical, and thermal should be taken into consideration in design. Traditional design methods rely on the initial configuration and the engi-neer's experience and only consider the design for the heat con-duction performance or the structure strength, which often sig-nificantly increases the weight. To solve the above problems, based on COMSOL Multiphysics software, the mathematical model of topology optimization of the main support was estab-lished with electromagnetic force and thermal stress as the input loads. The objective functions were assigned to total strain energy and heat leakage, combined with stress value and volume fraction constraint conditions. The solid isotropic material with penaliza-tion (SIMP) method was used to carry out the topological analy-sis of multiphysics. Finally, the innovative structure of main sup-port is obtained. Through finite element analysis of multiphysics fields, the heat leakage, the max Von-Mises stress, and weight were taken as evaluation indexes to compare the optimal struc-ture performance. The results show that the method adopted in this paper can reduce the heat leakage by 61.7% while reducing the weight of the main support by 85%, and the max Von-Mises stress does not exceed the yield limit of the material. The work of this paper provides a theoretical foundation for the engineering design of the heat conduction structure of a HTS magnet.