Pulse Heat Treatment of FINEMET Alloys Under Tension

In this contribution a less common experimental procedure is presented, which includes simultaneous application of electrical pulse heating, and longitudinal mechanical stress, applied along the ribbon length, for the magnetic property tailoring. The annealing is performed in protecting atmosphere in a vertical tube furnace by applying a weight at the free, cold bottom end of the ribbon. In these circumstances neither nanometer-size grains nor the concentration-distribution have been developed. The static coercive force, anisotropy and demagnetizing factor are monitored as a function of pulse number.