STUDIES OF REACTOR CONTAINMENT. Summary Report No. 3 for February 1, 1960 to July 31, 1960
Work on design procedures for blast shields had as its objective the development of methods of analysis of wave motion in one-dimensional systems composed of crushable material subjected to prescribed loadings at a free surface. The objective of the shock crushing of reactor shield materials task was to establish the loci of pressure-specific volume states attained by shock compression curves in the pressure-specific volume plane traced by porous solids in the crushed state. The explosive decompression of water resulting from pressure vessel rupture is being studied by determination of nature and magnitude of transient pressure loading in and on reactor vessels. Explosives test evaluation of blast shields and blast shield materials is being made for nuclear reactors. In the design of external containment structures investigation was made of the behavior of rigid-capped cylinders subjected to internal static pressure loading. (For preceding period see ARF-4l3213.) (W.L.H.)
- Research Organization:
- Illinois Inst. of Tech., Chicago. Armour Research Foundation
- DOE Contract Number:
- AT(11-1)-528
- NSA Number:
- NSA-15-005782
- OSTI ID:
- 4111931
- Report Number(s):
- ARF-4132-14
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 31-DEC-61
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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