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Villari effect

Stress changes the magnetisation of a magnetostrictive material. Combined with a pickup coil, vibration becomes a changing flux and hence a voltage.

Condensed matterfirst reported 1865also: inverse magnetostriction, magnetoelastic effect

Atlas record: 6 claims reference this phenomenon — 5 established and 1 demonstrated.

Explorerelations · matrix context · routes · sources · cite

conditions: solid · ferromagnet required
6claims11enumerated routes1routes with complete-composition evidence0candidate routes not searched4cited sources

Relations

drives · 2
Mechanical stress or strain—drives→Villari effectestablished
  • a magnetostrictive material under a bias field and cyclic stress
Elastic stress—drives→Villari effectestablished
produces · 1
Villari effect—produces→Changing magnetic fluxestablished
member of · 1
Villari effect—member of→Magnetostrictiveestablished
implemented by · 1
Villari effect—implemented by→Magnetostrictive harvesterdemonstrated
governed by · 1
Villari effect—governed by→Onsager–Casimir reciprocityestablished
  • Villari and Joule magnetostriction are converse effects with equal coefficients

Matrix context

D = disequilibrium row · C = coupling family column. A cell reads the state of the atlas for that pair.

Enumerated routes through this · 11

Cited sources · 4

  1. [1]
    L. Wang, F. G. Yuan. Vibration energy harvesting by magnetostrictive material (2008)
    Smart Materials and Structures 17, 045009 · doi:10.1088/0964-1726/17/4/045009 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record
  2. [2]
    L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, L. P. Pitaevskii. Electrodynamics of Continuous Media (Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 8, 2nd ed.) (1984)
    Pergamon · book, no DOI · record
  3. [3]
    J. P. Joule. On the effects of magnetism upon the dimensions of iron and steel bars (1847)
    Philosophical Magazine 30, 76–87 · doi:10.1080/14786444708645656 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record
  4. [4]
    E. Villari. Ueber die Aenderungen des magnetischen Moments, welche der Zug und das Hindurchleiten eines galvanischen Stroms in einem Stabe von Stahl oder Eisen hervorbringen (1865)
    Annalen der Physik 202, 87–122 · doi:10.1002/andp.18652020906 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record

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