Full-scale shear tests of embedded floor modules

Conference · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6702802

Fricke, K E; Jones, W D; Burdette, E G

A floor module used to support a centrifuge machine is a steel framework embedded in a 2-ft (610-mm) thick concrete slab. This steel framework is made up of four cylindrical hollow sockets tied together with four S-beams to form a square pattern. In the event of a centrifuge machine wreck, large forces are transmitted from the machine to the corner sockets (through connecting steel lugs) and to the concrete slab. The floor modules are loaded with a combination of torsion and shear forces in the plane of the floor slab. Precisely how these wreck loads are transmitted to, and reacted by, the floor modules and the surrounding concrete was the scope of a series of full-scale tests performed at the DOE Gas Centrifuge Enrichment Plant (GCEP) located near Piketon, Ohio. This report describes the tests and the results of the data reduction to date.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, TN (USA); Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA). Dept. of Civil Engineering
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6702802
• Report Number(s): K/D-5535-EA; CONF-840833-7; ON: DE84014875
• Resource Relation: Conference: 5. American Society of Civil Engineers/Engineering Mechanics specialty conference, Laramie, WY, USA, 1 Aug 1984; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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