%0 Journal Article %T Measurement of the plasma boundary shift and approximation of the magnetic surfaces on the IR-T1 Tokamak %A Elahi %A A. Salar %A Ghoranneviss %A M. %J Brazilian Journal of Physics %D 2010 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0103-97332010000300012 %X in this research we measured the plasma boundary shift using array of magnetic pick- up coils on the ir- t1 tokamak. also we approximated the magnetic surfaces by an equilibrium calculation. firstly, four magnetic probes were designed, constructed, and installed on outer surface of the ir- t1 tokamak chamber and then plasma boundary displacement measured from them. on the other hand, magnetic surfaces approximated by equilibrium calculation of the grad- shafranov equation based on expansion of free functions as quadratic in flux function. %K tokamak %K plasma boundary shift %K magnetic surfaces. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-97332010000300012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en