Table 575 



473 



DISSIPATION OF ENERGY IN THE CYCLIC MAGNETIZATION OF VARIOUS 



SUBSTANCES 



C. P. Steinmetz concludes from his experiments* that the dissipation of energy due to 

 hysteresis in magnetic metals can be expressed by the formula e = aB 1 - 6 , where e is the energy 

 dissipated and a a constant. He also concludes that the dissipation is the same for the same 

 range of induction, no matter what the absolute value of the terminal inductions may be. His 

 experiments show this to be nearly true when the induction does not exceed -J- i 5000 c. g. s. 

 units per sq. cm. It is possible that, if metallic induction only be taken, this may be true up to 

 saturation ; but it is not likely to be found to hold for total inductions much above the satura- 

 tion value of the metal. The law of variation of dissipation with induction range in the cycle, 

 stated in the above formula, is also subject to verification. t 



Values of Constant a 



The following table gives the values of the constant a as found by Steinmetz for a number of different specimens. 

 The data are taken from his second paper. 



Number of 

 specimen. 



Kind of material. 



Description of specimen. 



Value of 



26 



Iron filings 



Norway iron ...... 



Wrought bar ...... 



Commercial ferrotype plate 



Annealed " "... 



Thin tin plate 



Medium thickness tin plate 



Soft galvanized wire .... 



Annealed cast steel ..... 



Soft annealed cast steel .... 



Very soft annealed cast steel . 



Same as 8 tempered in cold water . 



Tool steel glass hard tempered in water 



" " tempered in oil ... 



" " annealed ..... 

 Same as 12, 13, and 14, after having been subjected 

 to an alternating m. m. f. of from 4000 to 6000 

 ampere turns for demagnetization .... 

 Gray cast iron 



" " " containing f % aluminium 



" " " i% ■ ■ 



A square rod 6 sq. cms. section and 6.5 cms. long, 

 from the Tilly Foster mines, Brewsters, Putnam 

 County, New York, stated to be a very pure sample 



Soft wire 



Annealed wire, calculated by Steinmetz from 

 Ewing's experiments ...... 



Hardened, also from Ewing's experiments 

 Rod containing about 2 % of iron, also calculated 

 from Ewing's experiments by Steinmetz 

 Consisted of thin needle-like chips obtained by 

 milling grooves about 8 mm. wide across a pile of 

 thin sheets clamped together. About 30 % by vol- 

 ume of the specimen was iron. 

 1st experiment, continuous cyclic variation of m. m. 



f. 180 cycles per second 



2d experiment, 1 14 cycles per second 

 3d " 79 _ 9 r cycles per second . 



.00227 

 .00326 

 .0054S 

 .00458 

 .00286 

 .00425 

 .00349 

 .0084S 

 .00457 

 .00318 

 .02792 

 .07476 

 .02670 

 .01899 

 .061 30 

 .02700 

 .01445 

 .01300 

 .01365 

 .01459 



.02348 



.0122 

 .ci 56 

 .0385 



.0457 

 .0396 

 •0373 



* "Trans Am. Inst. Elect. Eng." January and September, iS 

 t See T. Gray, " ft-oc. Roy. Soc." vol. lvi. 



Smithsonian Tables. 



