INFLUENCE OF REINFORCEMENT ANISOTROPY ON THE STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN TENSION AND SHEAR OF A FUSION MAGNET INSULATION SYSTEM
- Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities, Vienna University of Technology, 1020 Vienna (Austria)
- Institut fuer Reaktorsicherheit Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe (Germany)
A glass fiber reinforced plastic laminate, which consists of half-overlapped wrapped Kapton/R-glass-fiber reinforcing tapes vacuum-pressure impregnated in a cyanate ester/epoxy blend, is proposed as the insulation system for the ITER Toroidal Field coils. In order to assess its mechanical performance under the actual operating conditions, cryogenic (77 K) tensile and interlaminar shear tests were done after irradiation to the ITER design fluence of 1x10{sup 22} m{sup -2} (E>0.1 MeV). The data were then used for a Finite Element Method (FEM) stress analysis. We find that the mechanical strength and the fracture behavior as well as the stress distribution and the failure criteria are strongly influenced by the winding direction and the wrapping technique of the reinforcing tapes.
- OSTI ID:
- 21136748
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 986, Issue 1; Conference: International Cryogenic Materials Conference - ICMC, Vol. 54: Advances in cryogenic engineering materials, Chattanooga, TN (United States), 16-20 Jul 2007; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2900397; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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