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DC Magnetization Curves of Soft Magnetic Materials

Reference: Figure 17, “Direct current magnetization curves for various magnetic materials,” p. 792, Metals Handbook, 8th edition, Volume 1, American Society for Metals, 1961.

A complete archive of BH curve points derived from scans of this figure are available as scannedcurves.zip

Electrical Conductivity References

Material Conductivity, MS/m Reference
Supermendur 2.61 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Vanadium Permendur 2.61 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Pure iron, annealed 10.295 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Ingot iron, annealed 10.15 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Hot rolled low-carbon steel 8.41 Metals Hdbk Desktop Ed, value for 1010 Steel
M-50 5.51 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Cold rolled low carbon strip steel 8.41 Metals Hdbk Desktop Ed, value for 1010 Steel
Cold drawn carbon steel, annealed 8.41 Metals Hdbk Desktop Ed, value for 1010 Steel
M-43 and M-36 3.19 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Steel castings, as cast 6.206 Value for “Steel, Cast” (10.7% IACS) at eddy-current.com/condres.htm (archived)
Carbon steel forgings, annealed 8.41 Metals Hdbk Desktop Ed, value for 1010 Steel
3% Si strip, oriented 2.03 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
M-27 2.53 Metals Handbook, 8th ed., Vol. 1, ASM, 1961, p. 788, Table 2: middle of the 32-47 microhm-cm range for M-27
M-22 2.03 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
M-19 2.03 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
M-14 1.74 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Malleable iron castings, as cast 3.23 Metals Handbook, 8th ed., Vol. 1, ASM, 1961, “Malleable Iron,” p. 371, Table 6: ferritic malleable 28-34 microhm-cm at 70 F (middle, 31); pearlitic malleable 37-41 microhm-cm (2.4-2.7 MS/m)
416 stainless steel, annealed 1.74 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Nodular cast iron 1.9 ASM Handbook, Vol. 1, “Ductile Iron”: 0.50-0.55 microhm-m at room temperature; also Ductile Iron Data for Design Engineers, Section 3 (archived)
Gray iron, as cast 1.1 W. D. Callister and D. G. Rethwisch, Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction, 10th ed., Wiley, 2018, Table B.9, p. A-27: gray iron grades G3000 and G4000, 0.95 and 0.85 microhm-m (1.05 and 1.18 MS/m; grade G1800, 1.5 microhm-m)
Deltamax, oriented 2.088 Metals Hdbk Desktop Ed, value for grain oriented 50% Ni - 50% Fe
4750 alloy 2.088 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Perminvar (45% Ni - 25% Co) 5 Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers
Powdered iron, sintered and annealed 6.5 J. M. Montes et al., “Electrical Resistivity of Powdered Porous Compacts,” in Electrical and Electronic Properties of Materials, IntechOpen, 2018, doi:10.5772/intechopen.76159: sintered iron compacts, rho = rho0 (1 - porosity/0.678)-1.5 with rho0 = 11.77 microhm-cm; evaluated at an assumed 7.0 g/cm3 (porosity 0.11, 15.4 microhm-cm), the middle of the 6.2-7.8 g/cm3 range for P/M iron parts in the ASM Metals Handbook Desk Edition
Monimax, oriented 1.25 ASM Metals Handbook, Desk Edition, 1998, Table 4, “Electrical conductivity and resistivity of metals and alloys”: 80 microhm-cm (also R. M. Bozorth, Ferromagnetism, Van Nostrand, 1951, Appendix 4, Table 2)
Monimax, nonoriented 1.25 ASM Metals Handbook, Desk Edition, 1998, Table 4, “Electrical conductivity and resistivity of metals and alloys”: 80 microhm-cm (also R. M. Bozorth, Ferromagnetism, Van Nostrand, 1951, Appendix 4, Table 2)
65 Permalloy, oriented 5 R. M. Bozorth, Ferromagnetism, Van Nostrand, 1951, Appendix 4, Table 2: 20 microhm-cm for 68 Permalloy
Sinimax 1.16 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
78 Permalloy 6.25 ASM Metals Handbook, Desk Edition, 1998, Table 4, “Electrical conductivity and resistivity of metals and alloys”: 16 microhm-cm for 78% Ni (also R. M. Bozorth, Ferromagnetism, Van Nostrand, 1951, Appendix 4, Table 2)
Moly-Permalloy 1.74 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Supermalloy 1.54 ASM Metals Handbook, Desk Edition, 1998, Table 4, “Electrical conductivity and resistivity of metals and alloys”: 65 microhm-cm
Mumetal 1.74 Metals Handbook Desktop Edition
Pure nickel, annealed 13.34 Metals Hdbk Desktop Ed, value for 99.8% Ni
Soft magnetic ferrite (Fe-Ni-Zn-V) 0 Assume that ferrites have a negligible electrical conductivity
30% Ni-Fe temperature compensation alloy 1.2 R. M. Bozorth, Ferromagnetism, Van Nostrand, 1951, Fig. 5-6: about 83 microhm-cm for 30% Ni-Fe at room temperature
Monel, annealed 1.96 Special Metals, MONEL alloy 400 data sheet (archived), Table 3: 0.511 microhm-m, annealed
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