Failure Assessments for MQXF Magnet Support Structure with a Graded Approach

Pan, Heng; Anderssen, Eric C.; Cheng, Daniel W.; Prestemon, Soren O.; Ambrosio, Giorgio

doi:10.1109/TASC.2019.2908113

Title: Failure Assessments for MQXF Magnet Support Structure with a Graded Approach

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© 2002-2011 IEEE. The high luminosity large hadron collider (LHC) upgrade requires new quadrupoles, MQXF, to replace the present LHC inner triplet magnets. The MQXFA magnet is the first prototype that has a 150-mm aperture and uses Nb3Sn superconducting technology in a 4.2-m magnetic length structure. The support structure design of the MQXFA magnet is based on the bladder-and-key technology, where a relatively low pre-stress at room temperature is increased to the final preload targets during the cool-down by the differential thermal contraction of the various components. The magnet support structure components experience different load levels from pre-load to cool-down and excitation. Consequently, a few parts experience high stresses that may cause localized plastic deformations or internal fracture development. The concept presented in this paper for the failure assessment of support structures integrates nonlinear finite-element (FE) analysis with detailed sub-models and fracture mechanics into an advanced engineering tool. The nonlinear FE solutions enable estimations of the structural response to the given loads, and the advanced fracture analysis with failure assessment diagram assesses the structure safety index of results obtained from the FE model. The paper describes how the MQXFA end-shell segments are being optimized based on the failure analyses.

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Contributing Org.:: LARP

OSTI Identifier:: 1498548

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1604694

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-19-057-TD
Journal ID: ISSN 1051-8223; 1724042

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1051-8223

Publisher:: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; Fracture analysis; Nb $_{3}$ Sn magnet; mechanical analysis; superconducting magnet

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                    Pan, Heng, Anderssen, Eric C., Cheng, Daniel W., Prestemon, Soren O., and Ambrosio, Giorgio. Failure Assessments for MQXF Magnet Support Structure with a Graded Approach.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Pan, Heng, Anderssen, Eric C., Cheng, Daniel W., Prestemon, Soren O., & Ambrosio, Giorgio. Failure Assessments for MQXF Magnet Support Structure with a Graded Approach.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2019.2908113

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                    Pan, Heng, Anderssen, Eric C., Cheng, Daniel W., Prestemon, Soren O., and Ambrosio, Giorgio. Fri .  
"Failure Assessments for MQXF Magnet Support Structure with a Graded Approach".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2019.2908113.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1498548.

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@article{osti_1498548,

  title        = {Failure Assessments for MQXF Magnet Support Structure with a Graded Approach},

  author       = {Pan, Heng and Anderssen, Eric C. and Cheng, Daniel W. and Prestemon, Soren O. and Ambrosio, Giorgio},

  abstractNote = {© 2002-2011 IEEE. The high luminosity large hadron collider (LHC) upgrade requires new quadrupoles, MQXF, to replace the present LHC inner triplet magnets. The MQXFA magnet is the first prototype that has a 150-mm aperture and uses Nb3Sn superconducting technology in a 4.2-m magnetic length structure. The support structure design of the MQXFA magnet is based on the bladder-and-key technology, where a relatively low pre-stress at room temperature is increased to the final preload targets during the cool-down by the differential thermal contraction of the various components. The magnet support structure components experience different load levels from pre-load to cool-down and excitation. Consequently, a few parts experience high stresses that may cause localized plastic deformations or internal fracture development. The concept presented in this paper for the failure assessment of support structures integrates nonlinear finite-element (FE) analysis with detailed sub-models and fracture mechanics into an advanced engineering tool. The nonlinear FE solutions enable estimations of the structural response to the given loads, and the advanced fracture analysis with failure assessment diagram assesses the structure safety index of results obtained from the FE model. The paper describes how the MQXFA end-shell segments are being optimized based on the failure analyses.},

  doi          = {10.1109/TASC.2019.2908113},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 29,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2019},

  month        = {Fri Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2019}

}

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