Validation of elastic-plastic computer analyses for use in nuclear waste shipping cask design

Conference · Sat Jan 31 23:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6711745

Koploy, M; Schlafer, W; Zimmer, A

GA Technologies designed the Defense High Level Waste (DHLW) Truck Shipping Cask using state-of-the-art analytical techniques verified by model testing performed by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). The DHLW cask has a thick-walled stainless steel body and incorporates integral stainless steel impact limiters that protect the two ends of the cask during the hypothetical accident condition 30-ft free drop. These integral impact limiters absorb the drop energy through gross plastic deformations. GA used elastic-plastic computer codes developed at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, HONDOII and DYNA3D, to analyze for this non-linear behavior. In order to evaluate the analyses, GA developed elastic-plastic stress criteria that were adapted from the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Division I, Section III. This innovative design and analytical approach required test verification. Therefore, SNL performed 30-ft drop and puncture tests on a half-scale model of the DHLW cask. The testing conformed that the analytical approach works and results in a safe, conservative design.

• Research Organization: General Atomics Co., San Diego, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-80SF10791
• OSTI ID: 6711745
• Report Number(s): GA-A-18751; CONF-870306-43; ON: DE87007048
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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