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What’s the most difficult question you’ve been asked as a maintenance instructor?
Blye Widmar
"Where are the prints?!"
This was the final question in an onslaught of verbal feedback, comments, and critiques I received from my students back in 2019. I had two years of instructor experience and was teaching a class that had been meticulously rehearsed in preparation for an accreditation visit. I knew the training material well and transferred that knowledge effectively enough for all the students to pass the class. As we wrapped up, I asked the students how they felt about my first big system-level class, and they did not hold back.
“Why was the exam from memory when we don’t work from memory in the plant?” “Why didn’t we refer to the vendor documents?” “Why didn’t we practice more on the mock-up?” And so on.
Xi Deng, Ge Gao, Yan Rao, Li Jiang, Chenguang Wan
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 79 | Number 5 | July 2023 | Pages 517-527
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2022.2149205
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
The power electronic devices of ITER will bear a magnetic field strength of more than 5 mT, which may affect the operation of the devices and cause different degrees of damage to the devices. Therefore, these power electronic devices need a magnetic field anti-interference test. The core of the test facility is a magnetic field coil. First, the mathematical models of two-coil and multicoil systems considering the cross section are established. The general formula, optimization design objective, and optimization design process of the coil parameters are obtained, and the optimization scheme of the optimal solution is determined. Then, the multicoil systems are analyzed according to the actual design requirements and the actual site conditions. Some parameters that play a major role are used in the magnetic field distribution as variables to analyze and select the appropriate coil structure. Finally, the four-coil-group system with equal side lengths is applied as the coil structure based on the design requirements, power loss, weight, and manufacturing difficulty. Finite element software simulation results and experimental results prove the feasibility and correctness of the theoretical analysis.