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Numerical simulation of high-temperature creep deformation in Zr-2.5%Nb pressure tubes of CANDU reactors
- Source :
- CONICET Digital (CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, instacron:CONICET
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2020.
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Abstract
- The present paper deals with the development of a numerical approach to predict thermal creep in pressure tubes of CANDU nuclear power reactors. This phenomenon plays a crucial role under accident conditions, where the core can reach high temperature and the pressure tubes can suffer thermal creep with important radial deformation usually named “Ballonning”. The Balloning strain in CANDU pressure tubes is a difficult issue from the mathematical point of view due to the visco-plastic nature of the deformation, and the material properties of the tubes, which are made of a Zr–2.5%Nb alloy that presents micro-structural phase change at temperatures close to 800∘C. For this reason, an explicit strategy was implemented in OpenFOAM-5.0® assuming the uniaxial deformation in radial direction, neglecting the rotational strains. The proposed model is assessed by reproducing experimental tests before to be applied to model the response of CANDU pressure tubes under Station Blackout and Loss Of Coolant Accident conditions. Fil: Corzo, Santiago Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Centro de Investigaciones en Métodos Computacionales. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Centro de Investigaciones en Métodos Computacionales; Argentina Fil: Ramajo, Damian Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Centro de Investigaciones en Métodos Computacionales. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Centro de Investigaciones en Métodos Computacionales; Argentina
- Subjects :
- 0209 industrial biotechnology
Materials science
Alloy
02 engineering and technology
engineering.material
Deformation (meteorology)
law.invention
020901 industrial engineering & automation
0203 mechanical engineering
law
General Materials Science
Computer simulation
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics
Nuclear reactor
Core (optical fiber)
OPENFOAM®
PRESSURE TUBE
020303 mechanical engineering & transports
Creep
purl.org/becyt/ford/2 [https]
Mechanics of Materials
purl.org/becyt/ford/2.3 [https]
engineering
Material properties
CREEP
Loss-of-coolant accident
NUCLEAR REACTOR
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- CONICET Digital (CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, instacron:CONICET
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d8bd7928062d4ffe3f1636ef95a9a727