Experimental and calculated investigation of the stressed state of the toroidal field superconductor coil of the T-15 installation

1. The order of the calculated and experimental stresses and the character of their variation at the sections of the unit are in satisfactory agreement. This is applicable to both toroidal and poloidal forces. The experiment confirmed that the section 2-2 of the unit is maximally loaded. 2. The maximum divergences between the calculated and experimental data are observed at the section of the unit adjoining the cylinder (2-2) where the aforementioned differences between the model and the actual unit has the strongest effect. The divergences decrease if the supports of the unit on the cylinder flanges are not taken into account in the calculations (these results are drawn in Fig. 5 with dashed lines). 3. In accordance with the experiment data, the presence of a gap along the lines 1–2 and 3–4 raises the maximum stress in the model by 30...40% as compared to the same in a variant without the gap (35% according to calculations [2]). 4. The divergences between the calculated and experimental values of the displacements of the characteristic points of the unit do not exceed 20%.