Induction Stove for Hysteresis Experiments...

Many years ago, it was a classic way to heat steel for things like, well, heat treating. Pick the frequency for the depth of heating.

Is there a modern replacement that's better?

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You may be going about this a little bass-ackward.

Firstly, hysterisis is a material characteristic that would have to be measured, applying a controlled field. These materials are available in structures that make this fairly easy.

Then the losses resulting in the hysterisis measurement setup have to be measured. Calorimetric methods are the least equipment-intensive.

Heating through externally applied magnetic field is crude and uncontrollable.

RL

Absolutely! Collect a good quantity of Elephant or Rhino poop and make a fire for heating. ....sorry; you are not in the Africa flatlands...

Even if he were, it would take ages to collect a 'good quantity of rhino poop'. Very few rhinos left. (8-(

Perhaps a CO2 laser with an excitation depth of few um ? The surface picks the heat very quickly and some percentage is reflected from the boiling metal in whatever direction making it necessary to cover the whole process. For some applications perhaps.

Rene

To the contrary actually. The field geometry of the coil is known. The resonating coil draws as much current as it can dump into the material. At least to me it appears as controllable as a gaz torch.

Rene

This fellow is looking to measure the effect - heating, due to a cause - hysterisis, under the influence of a measurable alternating magnetic field in the material.

"Measuring Soft Ferrite Core Properties"

"Testing Critical Characteristics of Soft Ferrite Materials for Power Applications"

"Ferrite Property Measurement"

As one is dependant on the other and temperature, being characteristic material properties, they all have to be measurable (and controlable to a certain degree) before meaningful results can be extracted.

In some cases, a simple substitution of material, with all other factors fixed, will tell you all you practically need to know, as the material is seldom otherwise a candidate for user-controlled 'variation'.

RL

You mean it can be estimated.

Might as well estimate the whole shebang, which probably makes the most sense if you really want to avoid the tedium of making calibrated measurements and can only alter the hystertic properties in question by buying something else, any road.

RL