Presents essays from the 1st School of European training on technologies and industrial applications of superconductivity, held in Naples, Italy in 1991.
The classical superconductivity - phenomenology of low temperature superconductors, V. Palmieri; high-Tc superconductors, A. Di Chiara and F. Fontana; the Josephson effect - part 1, S. Pagano et al; the Josephson effect - part 2, G. Costabile and A. Saggese; small scale applications - MEG and MCG, A. Pasquarelli; the technology of electronic applications of high-temperature superconductors, B. David; small scale applications of superconductivity - market strategies, J.H. James and J.M. Lumley; high-Tc superconducting bearings, S. Zannella et al; low-Tc superconductors - basic properties and fabrication, S. Ceresara; design and manufacture of technical superconductors for energy and magnet applications, H. Krauth; magnet construction examples, F. Vivaldi; review on stability and protection of superconducting magnets, G. Masullo and A. Matrone; superconducting magnets using cable in conduit conductors, O. Dormicchi; large scale applications of superconductivity - the superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES), M. Spadoni; problems of structural analysis in the design of the dipoles for LHC, M. Motterle and L. Moletta; high-speed Maglev transportation and superconductor technology, G. Martinelli and Morini; introduction to vacuum, S. Galli; and others.
