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The RCC-MR design rules against buckling

Abstract

Fast breeder reactor structures are designed with large thin shells (typically about 20 meters diameter for 20 millimeters of thickness for Super Phenix or other pool type demonstration plant projects) and loaded with a Low Level of pressure and large cyclic thermal transient during the in service operation conditions, but shall be available to support without damage the dynamic pressures due to fluid structure interaction under seismic loading or other hypothetical situations. Such structures are susceptible to buckle and relatively large geometrical imperfections cannot be avoided. Even if buckling is not, strictly speaking a damage since the induced deformations can be limited, its appearance may induce failure mode as elastic or elastoplastic instability and in certain cases, increases the risks of fatigue damage or progressive deformation. This latter phenomenon may in its turn increase the risks of instability. Buckling may be accelerated or amplified by geometrical imperfections permitted by the manufacturing tolerances. The RCC-MR Design rules against buckling, edited in 1985 with the first edition, of the french design and construction code for fast breeder reactors, are under reviewing and should undergo large modification in the next times.
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1991
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
CEA-CONF-10782; CONF-9109394-
Reference Number:
SCA: 210500; 220900; PA: FRD-92:001625; SN: 92000762405
Resource Relation:
Conference: International colloquium on buckling of shell structures on land, in sea and in the air,Lyon (France),17-19 Sep 1991; Other Information: PBD: 1991
Subject:
21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; 22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; LMFBR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR VESSELS; DEFORMATION; SPECIFICATIONS; STRAINS; TIME DEPENDENCE; 210500; 220900; POWER REACTORS, BREEDING; REACTOR SAFETY
OSTI ID:
10153913
Research Organizations:
CEA Centre d`Etudes de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France). Dept. de Mecanique et de Technologie
Country of Origin:
France
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE92530407; TRN: FR9201625
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only); INIS
Submitting Site:
FRN
Size:
5 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 06, 2005

Citation Formats

Acker, D. The RCC-MR design rules against buckling. France: N. p., 1991. Web.
Acker, D. The RCC-MR design rules against buckling. France.
Acker, D. 1991. "The RCC-MR design rules against buckling." France.
@misc{etde_10153913,
title = {The RCC-MR design rules against buckling}
author = {Acker, D}
abstractNote = {Fast breeder reactor structures are designed with large thin shells (typically about 20 meters diameter for 20 millimeters of thickness for Super Phenix or other pool type demonstration plant projects) and loaded with a Low Level of pressure and large cyclic thermal transient during the in service operation conditions, but shall be available to support without damage the dynamic pressures due to fluid structure interaction under seismic loading or other hypothetical situations. Such structures are susceptible to buckle and relatively large geometrical imperfections cannot be avoided. Even if buckling is not, strictly speaking a damage since the induced deformations can be limited, its appearance may induce failure mode as elastic or elastoplastic instability and in certain cases, increases the risks of fatigue damage or progressive deformation. This latter phenomenon may in its turn increase the risks of instability. Buckling may be accelerated or amplified by geometrical imperfections permitted by the manufacturing tolerances. The RCC-MR Design rules against buckling, edited in 1985 with the first edition, of the french design and construction code for fast breeder reactors, are under reviewing and should undergo large modification in the next times.}
place = {France}
year = {1991}
month = {Dec}
}