Superconducting Coil Support Structure

A superconducting magnet was designed and built by Oxford Instruments to produce a field of up to 40 Tesla. The forces on the coils at these fields are enormous, and the structure which supports them must be carefully designed. It must be strong, stiff enough to control strain in the coils themselves, and made from materials that a compatible with high vacuum at cryogenic temperatures.

Best Solution assisted Oxford Instruments in-house analysis team for some of the finite element modelling tasks on both the supporting structure and the internal coil loads.