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A Study on the Buckling Characteristics of Spacer Grids in Pressurized Water Reactor Fuel Assembly  

Jeon Sang-Youn (한전원자력연료(주) 설계기술원)
Lee Young-Shin (충남대학교 기계설계공학과)
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Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea / v.18, no.4, 2005 , pp. 405-416 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study contains the static buckling tests and static buckling analyses for small size grids and full size grids. The buckling tests and finite element analyses were performed to evaluate the buckling characteristics of the spacer grids in a pressurized water reactor fuel assembly and to evaluate the possibility of the prediction lot the buckling strength of spacer grids. The buckling tests were performed for small size grids and full size grids, and the correlations between buckling strength and the number of straps and the correlations between buckling strength and the number of rows are derived based on the test results. The static buckling analyses were performed to identify the effect of the number of rows and the number of columns on the buckling strength of spacer grid by a finite element method using ANSYS program and the results were compared with the buckling test results.
Keywords
pressurized water reactor; fuel assembly; spacer grid; full size grids; small size grids; buckling strength; buckling mode;
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