Dynamic Magnetic Properties of the Magnetostrictive Rapidly-Quenched Alloys

This work was aimed at investigating the FeNbCuSiB and FeNiMoB type alloys exhibiting relatively high saturation magnetostriction after suitable heat treatment, which makes them suitable for application in force sensors. Samples of both alloys were prepared in a form of toroidal cores wound from amorphous ribbons obtained by melt-spinning, and then the cores were annealed under longitudinal and transverse magnetic field. An effect of the induced magnetic anisotropy and of the applied compressive stresses on the dynamic magnetic properties of both alloys within a frequency range from 50 Hz to 50 kHz was studied.