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Hi, for lower frequencies most electrical devices use laminated electric steel , like transformers and motors. But this makes the core made up of individual metal sheets and in older transformers taking the core apart sometimes results in the individual sheets falling apart.
Is there any material with similar or better magnetic properties than the laminated steel which would be rigid, similar to a ferrite core where the whole core (whatever shape) is a one piece material?
I ask this because I'm making a core for an experimental device and the geometry of it is such that laminated steel can't be applied as the flux path would be faced not with the "thin" parts of the laminations but with the flat ones, also the laminations couldn't be kept together easily.
Is there any material with similar or better magnetic properties than the laminated steel which would be rigid, similar to a ferrite core where the whole core (whatever shape) is a one piece material?
I ask this because I'm making a core for an experimental device and the geometry of it is such that laminated steel can't be applied as the flux path would be faced not with the "thin" parts of the laminations but with the flat ones, also the laminations couldn't be kept together easily.