scholarly journals Experimental model studies of bubbles generated in fast breeder reactors during a hypothetical core disruptive accident. Quarterly progress report No. 4, 1 October-31 December 1976

1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Cagliostro ◽  
D Ploeger
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Model ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Model Studies ◽  
Fast Breeder Reactors ◽  
Breeder Reactors

Radiation Damage Studies with the HVEM

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 680-681
Author(s):  
J. J. Laidler ◽  
B. Mastel
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Damage ◽  
Stainless Steels ◽  
Volume Expansion ◽  
Austenitic Stainless Steels ◽  
Test Facility ◽  
Fast Breeder Reactors ◽  
Breeder Reactors ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Development Laboratory ◽  
Insight Into

One of the major materials problems encountered in the development of fast breeder reactors for commercial power generation is the phenomenon of swelling in core structural components and fuel cladding. This volume expansion, which is due to the retention of lattice vacancies by agglomeration into large polyhedral clusters (voids), may amount to ten percent or greater at goal fluences in some austenitic stainless steels. From a design standpoint, this is an undesirable situation, and it is necessary to obtain experimental confirmation that such excessive volume expansion will not occur in materials selected for core applications in the Fast Flux Test Facility, the prototypic LMFBR now under construction at the Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory (HEDL). The HEDL JEM-1000 1 MeV electron microscope is being used to provide an insight into trends of radiation damage accumulation in stainless steels, since it is possible to produce atom displacements at an accelerated rate with 1 MeV electrons, while the specimen is under continuous observation.

Appraisal of Allowable Loads by Simplified Rules

1986 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
D. Moulin
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Plastic Region ◽  
Thin Structures ◽  
Geometric Imperfections ◽  
Buckling Behavior ◽  
Simplified Method ◽  
Post Buckling ◽  
Initial Geometric Imperfections ◽  
Fast Breeder Reactors ◽  
Breeder Reactors

This paper presents a simplified method to analyze the buckling of thin structures like those of Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactors (LMFBR). The method is very similar to those used for the buckling of beams and columns with initial geometric imperfections, buckling in the plastic region. Special attention is paid to the strain hardening of material involved and to possible unstable post-buckling behavior. The analytical method uses elastic calculations and diagrams that account for various initial geometric defects. An application of the method is given. A comparison is made with an experimental investigation concerning a representative LMFBR component.

Progress in Developing Constitutive Equations for Inelastic Design Analysis

1983 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Pugh
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Equations ◽  
Inelastic Strain ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Inelastic Material ◽  
Fast Breeder Reactors ◽  
Breeder Reactors ◽  
Term Creep ◽  
Inelastic Design ◽  
Creep Deformations

A summary is given of the constitutive equations that have been developed for use in design assessments of elevated temperature components of liquid metal fast breeder reactors. The discussion addresses representations of short-term (plastic) and long-term (creep) inelastic material responses. Attention is given to improved representations of the interactions between plastic and creep deformations. Most of the discussion is in terms of constitutive equations that make use of the concept of separating the total strain into elastic, plastic, and creep portions. Additionally, some discussion is given of progress being made toward establishing design equations based on unified measures of inelastic strain that do not distinguish different strain portions.

Constitutional studies on carbide nuclear fuels for fast breeder reactors

1980 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Peatfield ◽  
N.H. Brett ◽  
H.R. Haines ◽  
P.E. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Fuels ◽  
Fast Breeder Reactors ◽  
Breeder Reactors
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