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Reversible materials

and irreversible

magnetization

in soft iron-based

polycrystalline

G. Bertotti, F. Fiorillo, and M. Pasquale Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale GaIileo Ferraris and INFM-GNSM, 10125 Torino, Italy

Cso M. d’Azeglio 42,

The magnetization process has been investigated in nonoriented SiFe alloys over a wide induction range, from about 10 - 4 T to technical saturation. Special attention has been devoted to the role of grain size (s). The low-field behavior of the initial magnetization curve is characterized by a number of remarkable features: ( 1) the permeability pr tends, in the limit of vanishing applied field H, to a constant value, independent of (s); (2) the increase of ,LL~with H exhibits a nonlinear behavior, in contrast with the Rayleigh law; and (3) the larger the grain size, the steeper the rise of pu, with H. This effect is attributed to an increased ease of propagation of locally induced magnetization reversals at larger (s) values. Experiments put in evidence a correlation between pu, and the length of propagation /1, which is found to vary as p, 1’2. However, at high inductions (above about 1 T), larger grains imply a reduction of permeability;due to the growth of unfavorable crystallographic textures. Grain size also affects power losses to a large extent. Measurements performed at 1 and 1.5 T show that the hysteresis component Ph and the excess eddy component P,, respectively, vary as l/m and m in the investigated range 45 pm