The site is intended to tell the story of ‘Vibe,’ which is the name given to the interesting effect discovered by Ivan Garshelis and myself, Ryan Kari. The ‘Vibe’ project came about as a side project carried out at MagCanica – http://www.magcanica.com. Vibe came about as around 2015, when Ivan Garshelis and Ryan Kari were pondering what was the inverse of a magnetoelastic force transducer invented by Ivan several years before and published in the Journal of Applied Physics: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3360581 .
Our motivation was to find something new and interesting to explore outside of the standard world of magnetoelastic torque sensing that I was immersed in. We had a number of areas we discussed, but I think it is fair to say that Ivan was bothered for years at the idea there should be an inverse to the bending sensor. The idea was if bending stresses could influence a remanent circumferential magnetization in a member (the stress has an influence on the magnetization) the opposite should be true. Circumferential magnetization (such as from an applied current) should alter the strain in the member (could magnetization cause deflection)? We talked for weeks and carried out numerous literature and internet searches looking for the answer – the closest we found was the Guillemin effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemin_effect
As can be noted by the two sentence description in Wikipedia, there isn’t much information available on this effect. A further description is presented in the background section: https://magnetovibe.com/background/
The idea of a current through a wire producing a deflection is so fundamental, surely if it was real, it would have been explored? We were shocked to discover it really hasn’t been, leading us to where we are today.
In the coming posts, I’ll continue jotting down the history of this, and as it continues into the future, look forward to the progress being tracked and available for anyone to follow along. As this is devoted to the story of Vibe, the blog posts will be in chronological order, with the newest at the bottom. Our most recent work will soon find a home in Applications:
Applications
Other pages will be added as required.
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