  An influence of a time dependent external tensile stress on the
remagnetization process of a bistable wire is investigated experimentally and
numerically. The dependence of the magnetization on the frequency of the
tensile stress is analyzed in terms of the magnetic domain structure of Fe-rich
wires. The dependence of the switching field on the phase of the tensile stress
is presented and reproduced by a straightforward numerical simulation of the
remagnetization process in a bistable wire. There, the input is the
experimental static dependences of the switching field and of the magnetization
of the wire on an external tensile stress. The presented dependences of the
switching field and the magnetization on the periodic tensile stress allow to
tune the shape of the hysteresis loop, what can be useful in constructing a
phase sensor.
