Characterisation of electric alloys for electric drives

Knowledge of the magnetic and loss characteristics of electric alloys is necessary for the computation and design of electrical machines. Over a long period of time, and more recently, many devices have been proposed for this characterisation. They test ferromagnetic sheets under conditions of unidirectional magnetic flux density. Other methods are derived from some of these devices, but they use conditions of rotating flux density. In the paper the authors show with the use of numerical computation that, in all these testing systems, the distribution of the magnetic flux density through the thickness of the sheet is uniform and does not take into account the edge effect which exists in rotating machines. Comparison between these flux density distributions shows that the experimental results of these devices are suitable for transformers but not for rotating machines