Reinforced fiber polymer composites are a class of materials that are composed of multiple constituents that work together to create a material specific for applications. By combining different fibers and matricies, laminates can be created that meet demands for high specific stiffness, damping specifications, and electrical resistance. However, their internal complexity subjects them to a number of internal failure modes that have the potential to fail the laminate. Those failure mechanisms are fiber breaking, microcracking in the matrix, debonding of the fibers from matrix, and delamination of ply layers. To assess these failures, nondestructive evaluation methods have been developed to detect internal damage before catastrophic failure occurs. This dissertation investigates an in-situ magnetostrictive based nondestructive method for monitoring delaminations in carbon fiber reinforced polymer laminates by using embedded Terfenol-D particles. The objective is to characterize how laminate ply count and delamination presence affect sensing through the mechanical and magnetic parameters that influence the induced voltage or sensing signal. In addition, the effect of magnetostriction on the formation and propagation of cracks on the sensor boundaries are also investigated. Methods used to characterize this behavior involve experimental testing, analytical, and numerical modeling. From the results, a threedimensional finite element analysis model reveals how the sensor interacts mechanically with the host structure through lower stresses in the delaminated region due to the absence of adhesive forces. The stress variation results in a local magnetic permeability change which influences the induced voltage. The experimental nondestructive testing show that the key parameter influencing the sensing signal for this setup was the particle density, which is controlled by fabrication process. An attempt to analytically model the experimental sensing signal with a first order differential equation using a multi-step process was successful, but there is poor correlation with the experimental results. Finally, analytical mechanics are developed to evaluate the interlaminar failure under a magnetostrictive stress of 55MPa, and was found to not cause interlaminar failure or delamination propagation in Section-A.

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The design and analysis of a low-frequency, resonant, tonpilz type, rare earth iron underwater sound transducer using rods of Tb.27Dy.73Fe1.95 are described. An equivalent circuit is presented which predicts the performance of the transducer in the presence of eddy currents and demagnetization. The effect of eddy currents on the impedance of a rod is discussed. The predicted performance of a laminated transducer is compared with that of an unlaminated transducer. The performance of the rare earth iron transducer is compared with the performance of the same transducer with identical ceramic active elements. Data on transmitting current response, transmitting voltage response, free field voltage sensitivity, coupling coefficient, efficiency, and linearity are presented. Advantages, disadvantages, and possible uses of rare earth iron material are discussed.

In this conducted research, optical fiber sensors are used to measure low strength alternating magnetic fields. Various fiber sensor configurations are tested and investigated to demonstrate sensing capabilities at different field magnitudes and frequencies. Distributed acoustic sensing fibers (DAS) have been largely studied and documented across a variety of applications and sensing systems. This research uses the DAS technology in tandem with magnetostrictive materials to create a distributed multi-material optical fiber magnetic sensor. Magnetic sensing has high demand across different fields and often runs into challenges of extreme environments including high temperature, corrosion, and areas with poor accessibility. The robust and distributed nature of optical fiber sensors which can be cheaply produced for long lengths is an attractive option over other single point magnetic sensors. In down hole applications specifically, having a distributed sensor able to be deployed easily and over long distances for magnetic sensing would be a large improvement to bulkier traditional magnetometers. In the conducted study, different magnetostrictive materials are implemented in distributed optical fiber sensors to analyze and compare the effective sensitivity and potential commercial viability. Nickel, galfenol alloy, and MetGlas alloy inclusions are drawn into fused silica optical fibers with Bragg gratings inscribed later on for DAS capability. Each was investigated for its response to varying AC magnetic fields to determine relative sensitivity and resolution for distributed magnetic field sensing. / Master of Science / Magnetic sensing has high demand in biomedical applications as well as within the oil and energy industry. This research proposes a series of optical fiber-based sensors to overcome many of the challenges present amidst traditional magnetic sensors. Materials that respond to magnetic fields by either contracting or expanding are coined magnetostrictive. The proposed fiber-based sensors use magnetostrictive materials to create a change in the optical path length of the light being transmitted through the optical fiber. This path difference can be converted to a strain measurement and when compared with a standardized magnetometer, a calibration curve is established for the fiber sensor. Different magnetostrictive materials are studied for measuring various alternating magnetic field amplitude strengths to look at improved sensitivity and/or resolution. This includes nickel, galfenol alloy, which is made up of iron and gallium, and MetGlas, which is composed of primarily of iron. Small wires of the respective materials are drawn out inside the silica fiber while the optical fiber is made so that continuous lengths run the course of the fiber. Different sizes were experimented with. Another simplified tested setup used a ribbon of the MetGlas while a distributed acoustic fiber sensor was laid on top to pick up the strain response while exposed to an alternating magnetic field. All of the mentioned test setups showed success in measuring alternating magnetic field strengths with a clear positive correlation of strain response to magnetic field amplitude. A calibration curve was established for each sensing system and analyzed to show an effective sensitivity range.

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In recent years, there has been an intense interest in understanding the microscopic mechanism of laser induced ultrafast magnetization dynamics in picosecond time scales. Magnetization switching on such a time scale has potential to be a significant boost for the data storage industry. It is expected that the writing process will become ~1000 times faster by this technology, compared to existing techniques. Understanding the microscopic mechanisms and controlling the magnetization in such a time scale is of paramount importance at present. In this thesis, laser induced ultrafast magnetization dynamics has been studied for Fe, Co, GdFe, CoMn and Heusler alloys. A multiscale approach has been used, i.e., first-principles density functional theory combined with atomistic spin dynamics utilizing the Landau –Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, along with a three-temperature phenomenological model to obtain the spin temperature. Special attention has been paid to the calculations of exchange interaction and Gilbert damping parameters. These parameters play a crucial role in determining the ultrafast magnetization dynamics under laser fluence of the considered materials. The role of longitudinal and transversal excitations was studied for elemental ferromagnets, such as Fe and Co. A variety of complex temporal behavior of the magnetic properties was observed, which can be understood from the interplay between electron, spin, and lattice subsystems. The very intricate structural and magnetic nature of amorphous Gd-Fe alloys for a wide range of Gd and Fe atomic concentrations at the nanoscale was studied. We have shown that the ultrafast thermal switching process can happen above the compensation temperature in GdFe alloys. It is demonstrated that the exchange frustration via Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction between the atomic Gd moments, in Gd rich area of these alloys, leads to Gd demagnetization faster than the Fe sublattice. In addition, we show that Co is a perfect Heisenberg system. Both Co and CoMn alloys have been investigated with respect to ultrafast magnetization dynamics. Also, it is predicted that ultrafast switching process can happen in the Heulser alloys when they are doped with heavy elements. Finally, we studied multiferroic CoCr2O4 and Ca3CoMnO4 systems by using the multiscale approach to study magnetization dynamics. In summary, our approach is able to capture crucial details of ultrafast magnetization dynamics in technologically important materials.

There has been significant interest in BiFeO₃ over the past decade. This interest has focused on the magnetic and electrical properties, which in the long term may prove useful in device applications. This thesis focuses on the synthesis, electrical characterisation, and structural origin of the electrical properties of rare earth doped bismuth ferrite. Two systems have been studied: BiFeO₃ doped with lanthanum and neodymium (Bi₁₋ₓREₓFeO₃ RE= La, Nd). Specific examples have been highlighted focusing on a detailed structural analysis of a lanthanum doped bismuth ferrite, Bi₀.₅La₀.₅FeO₃, and a neodymium analogue, Bi₀.₇Nd₀.₃FeO₃. Both adopt an orthorhombic GdFeO₃-type structure (space group: Pnma) with G-type antiferromagnetism. Structural variations were investigated by Rietveld refinement of temperature dependent powder neutron diffraction using a combination of both conventional “bond angle/bond length” and symmetry-mode analysis. The latter was particularly useful as it allowed the effects of A-site displacements and octahedral tilts/distortions to be considered separately. This in-depth structural analysis was complemented with ac-immittance spectroscopy using the multi-formulism approach of combined impedance and modulus data to correlate structural changes with the bulk electrical properties. This approach was essential due to the complex nature of the electrical response with contributions from different electroactive regions. The structural variations occur due to a changing balance between magnetic properties and other bonding contributions in the respective systems. This results in changes in the magnitude of the octahedral tilts, and A-site displacements giving rise to phenomena such as negative thermal expansion and invariant lattice parameters i.e., the invar effect. More specifically, analysis of Bi₀.₅La₀.₅FeO₃ highlights a structural link between changes in the relative dielectric permittivity and changes in the FeO₆ octahedral tilt magnitudes, accompanied by a structural distortion of the octahedra with corresponding A-site displacement along the c-axis; this behaviour is unusual due to an increasing in-phase tilt mode with increasing temperature. The anomalous orthorhombic distortion is driven by magnetostriction at the onset of antiferromagnetic ordering resulting in an Invar effect along the magnetic c-axis and anisotropic displacement of the A-site Bi³⁺ and La³⁺ along the a-axis. This contrasts with the neodymium analogue Bi₀.₇Nd₀.₃FeO₃ in which a combination of increasing A-site displacements in the ac-plane and decrease in both in-phase and anti-phase tilts combine with superexchange giving rise to negative thermal expansion at low temperature. The A-site displacements correlate with the orthorhombic strain. By carefully changing the synthesis conditions, a significant change in bulk conductivity was observed for a number for Bi₁₋ₓLaₓFeO₃ compositions. A series of Bi₀.₆La0.₄FeO₃ samples are discussed, where changes in the second step of the synthesis result in significantly different bulk conductivities. This behaviour is also observed in other compositions e.g. Bi₀.₇₅La₀.₂₅FeO₃. Changes in the electrical behaviour as a function of temperature are discussed in terms of phase composition and concentration gradients of defects. Activation energies associated with the conduction process(es) in Bi₁₋ₓLaₓFeO₃ samples, regardless of composition, fall within one of two broad regimes, circa. 0.5 eV or 1.0 eV, associated with polaron hopping or migration of charge via oxygen vacancies, respectively. The use of symmetry-mode analysis, in combination with conventional crystallographic analysis and electrical analysis using multi-formulism approach, presents a new paradigm for investigation of structure-property relationships in rare earth doped BiFeO₃.

No presente trabalho foram produzidas duas ligas policristalinas de Fe-Ga e Fe-Ga-B para estudar a influência do boro nas propriedades piezomagnéticas da liga Fe-Ga. As propriedades piezomagnéticas foram obtidas a partir de medidas de magnetostricção (λ) em função de campo magnético (H) pelo coeficiente d33 = dλ/dH e medidas de indução magnética (B) em função da tensão compressiva aplicada (σ) pelo coeficiente d*33 = dB/dσ. A composição escolhida foi com 18,6% de Ga para ambas as ligas, que é a composição que possui o maior valor de magnetostricção na liga binária. A análise da microestrutura indicou a presença das fases Fe(Ga)-α (A2) e Fe3Ga (D03) para ambas as ligas e da fase Fe2B para a liga ternária. A presença da fase Fe2B causou o refinamento dos grãos e consequentemente um pequeno aumento do campo coercitivo da liga Fe-Ga-B se comparada à liga Fe-Ga e, além disto, aumentou o campo de saturação. Consequentemente os coeficientes piezomagnéticos da liga com boro foram duas vezes menores que da liga Fe-Ga. A igualdade d33* = d33 não é satisfeita para a liga Fe-Ga nem para a Fe-Ga-B, significando que os experimentos não foram realizados em condições estritamente reversíveis. Atribui-se esta irreversibilidade à alta velocidade de carregamento usada nos experimentos de B vs σ. No entanto, a dependência dos coeficientes piezomagnéticos do campo magnético e da tensão compressiva aplicada da liga Fe-Ga-B é bem menor que da liga Fe-Ga e os valores obtidos de ~ 4 nm/A são suficientemente adequados para muitas aplicações. / In this work were maked two polycrystalline alloys of Fe-Ga e Fe-Ga-B for to study the influence of borun in the piezomagnetc properties of the Fe-Ga alloys. The piezomagnetc properties were obteined from magnetostrictive measuments (λ) in function of magnetic field (H) by the coefficient d33 = dλ/dH and magnetic induction measuments (B) in function of compressive stress applied (σ) by the coefficient d*33 = dB/dσ. The chosen composition were 18.6% of Ga to both alloys, which is the composition for the largest magnetostriction to the binary alloy. The microstructural analysis indicated the presence of the phases Fe(Ga)-α and Fe3Ga (D03) for the both alloys and Fe2B phases to the ternary alloy. The presence of the Fe2B caused the refinament of the grains and consequently a small increase in the coercive field of the Fe-Ga alloy and, in addition, increased the saturation field. Consequently, the piezomagnetic coefficients of the boron alloys were twice as low as that of the Fe-Ga alloy. The equality d33* = d33 was not satisfied for the Fe-Ga and to Fe-Ga-B meaning that the experiments were not performed under strictly reversible conditions. This irreversibility was attributed to the high loading speed used in the experiments of B vs σ. However, the dependence of the piezomagnetic coefficients of the magnetic field and the applied compressive stress of the Fe-Ga-B alloy is much lower than that of the Fe-Ga alloy and the values obtained from ~ 4nm/A are sufficiently suitable for many applications.

O presente trabalho teve como foco um problema que vem se tornando cada vez mais grave nos dias de hoje, já que, com o crescimento das zonas urbanas, algumas residências estão se aproximando dos transformadores de potência. Transformadores são máquinas cuja função é aumentar ou diminuir a diferença de potencial de uma rede elétrica, porém, eles geram um nível significativo de ruído, podendo ser prejudicial à saúde. Esse ruído é causado pela magnetostricção pelas chapas de Fe-Si as quais compõem o núcleo. Assim, o intuito desse trabalho foi estudar duas ligas de Fe-Ti, para averiguar seu comportamento magnetostrictivo. Além disso, é importante estudar as propriedades magnéticas dessas ligas, a fim de se analisar quais são as perdas magnéticas associadas a essas ligas. Portanto, também foram feitas medidas de indução magnética, permeabilidade magnética e resistividade elétrica. Também foram feitas análises de microscopia eletrônica de varredura, para análise do tamanho e morfologia dos grãos, difratometria de raios X, para identificação das fases presentes e difração de elétrons retroespalhados, para identificação da textura. Todas essas medidas foram feitas para as ligas de Fe-Ti e uma liga de Fe-Si comercial de grão orientado e os resultados foram comparados entre si. As ligas de Fe-Ti apresentaram valores de magnetostricção menores do que a liga de Fe-Si, porém, apresentaram valores bem maiores quando analisadas as perdas magnéticas. Com isso, foi possível fazer uma primeira análise das ligas de Fe-Ti, criando diversas possibilidades para estudos futuros. / The present research had as focus a problem that is becoming very serious nowadays, since with the growth of urban areas, some households are approaching the power transformers. Power transformers are machines whose function is to increase or decrease the potential difference of a power grid, but they generate a significant level of noise, which can be harmful to human health. This noise is created by the magnetostriction of the Fe-Si plates that compose the core. Thus, the purpose of this research was to study two Fe-Ti alloys to investigate their magnetostrictive behavior. In addition, it is important to study the magnetic properties of these alloys in order to analyze the magnetic losses associated with these samples. Therefore, measurements of magnetic induction, magnetic permeability and electrical resistivity were also made. Were made analyzes of scanning electron microscopy to investigate the size and morphology of the grains, X-ray diffraction, to identify the phases that are present in the material and electron backscatter diffraction to identify the texture.These characterizations were made for the Fe-Ti alloys and a commercial grain-oriented Fe-Si alloy. The results were compared to each other. Fe-Ti alloys showed lower magnetostriction values than the Fe-Si alloy, however they presented highest values of magnetic losses. As a result, it was possible to make a first analysis of the Fe-Ti alloys properties, creating several possibilities for future studies in order to improve Fe-Ti alloys properties.