Drop impact tester development for spent nuclear fuel vibration integrity study
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
The accumulated damage of SNF rod is defined as the integrated damage induced by the SNF assembly harmonic vibrations and SNF assembly & cask system contact interactions induced transient shocks, experienced by SNF rods during normal conditions of transportation (NCT). The CIRFT technology has provided means to resolve/understand the SNF rod harmonic vibration reliability issues associated with maximum axial clad tubing stress induced by SNF inertia related dynamic bending loading. However, the SNF rod integrity in association with the transient shock loads during NCT through dynamic contact interactions among SNF assembly cannot be investigated systematically through CIRFT technology alone. Thus, the proposed drop impact tester development become a viable tool for SNF system transient shock effect investigation. Furthermore, the transient shocks induced loading mode is normally perpendicular to the SNF rod axial orientation, i.e., in a transverse orientation to the SNF rod. To proceed with such loading mode investigation, a new device, “SNF Drop Impact Tester” that provides the transverse impact shock load onto a SNF rod through a free-drop projectile was developed in FY20 for SNF System Vibration Reliability Investigation; where the SNF system contact impact intensity can be calibrated accordingly with projectile weight and projectile head geometry. This newly developed research tool can further provide a detailed understanding about the effect of dynamic contact-interaction loadings; and combined harmonic vibration and transient shock loading modes on the fatigue damage evolution of the HBU SNF under NCT.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1772622
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/TM-2021/1897
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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