Designing Model and Optimization of the Permanent Magnet for Joule Balance NIM-2

Abstract

Permanent magnets with yokes are widely used in the watt and joule balances to measure the Planck constant for the forthcoming redefinition of the unit of mass, the kilogram. Recently, a permanent magnet system has been in consideration for a further practice of NIM-2, the generalized joule balance. In this paper, an analytical model to design the permanent magnet system is presented. The presented model can be solved to obtain the preliminary parameters and then is used as guidance for FEA software to optimize the parameters of such magnetic system. As an instance for the application of the designing model, the design of the permanent magnet system for NIM-2 is described and the special design of opening shape makes the misalignment of the top and middle yokes has little influence on the vertical component of the magnetic field.