MAGNETIC FIELD PROPERTIES RELATED TO THE DESIGN OF A ONE-COMPONENT MAGNETIC SUPPORT-AND-BALANCE SYSTEM

摘要

Calculations have been made of the magnetic performance characteristics of air-cored solenoids applied to a one-component magnetic support-and-balance system These characteristics include field strength, field gradients, static stability derivatives for a ferromagnetic body in the solenoid field, and the solenoid power required to produce given field strengths and to levitate a magnetic body These characteristics were calculated only in the vicinity of the solenoid axis and are shown to be related simply to four fundamental, shape dependent, dimensionless parameters (and to several ratios of these parameters).