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Mechanical Properties of Superconducting Materials

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Superconducting materials are currently the key research target in the field of basic and applied superconductivity. The intrinsic brittleness and the poor mechanical properties of several superconductors such A15 alloys, high Tc superconductors (HTSc) and non-cuprates superconductors, halt in the pathway of a broad extent of actual applications. In order to be better commercialized, some factors have to be controlled and optimized among which is the development of exceptional processing methods for fabrication of usable superconductors. This book chapter examines the up-to-date of mechanical characteristics of superconducting materials. We start by giving an overview of the different testers used for measuring the mechanical behavior. One of the most significant mechanical properties to be enhanced is the microhardness. Therefore, we focused in the next section to microhardness and various models adopted to analyze it. Also, the mechanical nature of different types discovered superconductors from alloys, cuprates, to non-cuprates has been deeply reviewed and discussed. For each case, challenges and recent results for getting commercialized superconductors material with good mechanical properties were presented.

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Hannachi, E., Slimani, Y. (2022). Mechanical Properties of Superconducting Materials. In: Slimani, Y., Hannachi, E. (eds) Superconducting Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1211-5_4

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