Design optimization analysis of the new SPR III-M reactor
Abstract
This report discusses the finite element method analysis which was used to refine the SPR III-M reactor fuel assembly mechanical design to withstand the stresses and strains of pulse-mode operation, which induces thermal shock loading in the fuel assembly components. The original reactor design was analyzed for its structural response to separate pulses at increasingly severe levels. Subsequent calculations at one consistent pulse level examined several design modifications, which will result in a significant reduction in stress in the final design.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10120726
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-93-1925C; CONF-940407-5
ON: DE94006373; BR: GB0103012; TRN: 94:005545
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Topical meeting on advances in reactor physics,Knoxville, TN (United States),11-14 Apr 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1993]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; PULSED REACTORS; DESIGN; STRESS ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SANDIA LABORATORIES; FUEL ASSEMBLIES; MODIFICATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; J CODES; P CODES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; THERMAL SHOCK; 220600; 990200; RESEARCH, TEST, TRAINING, PRODUCTION, IRRADIATION, MATERIALS TESTING REACTORS; MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTERS
Citation Formats
Miller, J D. Design optimization analysis of the new SPR III-M reactor. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web.
Miller, J D. Design optimization analysis of the new SPR III-M reactor. United States.
Miller, J D. 1993.
"Design optimization analysis of the new SPR III-M reactor". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10120726.
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