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Enhancements to Concrete Modeling Capabilities in Grizzly 2.0

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1495191· OSTI ID:1495191
 [1];  [2]
  1. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
  2. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
The Grizzly code has been under development for several years with the goal of modeling aging effects in a variety of nuclear power plant systems, components, and structures. Version 2.0 of Grizzly was recently released, including both major improvements to its probabilistic fracture mechanics capabilities for evaluation of irradiated reactor pressure vessels, as well as multiple improvements to its capability for modeling degradation of concrete structures. This report summarizes recent development in the Grizzly code specific to concrete modeling that are included in this release. Major highlights of this work include the release of much of the concrete modeling capabilities of Grizzly in an open-source code called BlackBear, modernization of the models and documentation of the code, support for including nonlinear mechanical constitutive models, including creep and damage, re-architecting the anisotropic expansion model to allow its use for modeling both expansion due to alkali-silica reaction and radiation-induced volumetric expansion, and developing a preliminary capability for modeling connection of reinforcing bars to a concrete matrix.
Research Organization:
Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
DOE Contract Number:
AC07-05ID14517
OSTI ID:
1495191
Report Number(s):
INL/EXT--18-51526-Rev000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English