“…In order to reduce costs, labor, and assembling time, the investigations of design optimization are generally done on Manuscript received August 7, 1996; revised January 29,1997 down-scaled model cores. Interesting conclusions and suggestions were mentioned in many papers with regard to the joint models [4], [6]- [9], optimum overlap [8]-[ 121, number of laminations per stagger layer [8], [ll], and the core shape (aspect ratio) [5], [8], [lo].…”