Effect of the magnetic state on the damping properties of iron and nickel alloys

The dependences of the ΔEeffect and internal friction on the magnetic field have been investigated upon the magnetization and magnetization reversal of some polycrystalline ferromagnetic materials with different properties. It has been shown that for all the materials that have been investigated there is characteristic a nonmonotonic dependence of the magnitude of internal friction on the magnetic field both for the magnetization curves and for the major hysteresis loops. It is shown that in the sonic frequency range of elastic vibrations the basic mechanism of the formation of the magnetic peaks of internal friction in the materials investigated is magnetostrictive; the damping depends simultaneously on the instantaneous values of magnetostriction and magnetostrictive sensitivity.