• Title of article

    Therelationshipbetweenirradiationinduceddimensionalchangeandthecoefficientofthermalexpansion:amodifiedSimmonsrelationshipOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    GHall، نويسنده , , B.JMarsden، نويسنده , , S.LFok، نويسنده , , JSmart، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    12
  • From page
    319
  • To page
    330
  • Abstract
    the1960s,atheoreticalrelationshipbetweenthedimensionalchangesandthecoefficientofthermalexpansionofirradiatedgraphitewasderivedbyJ.H.W.Simmons.Thetheorywasshowntobecomparablewithexperimentalobservationsatlowirradiationdoses,butshowntodivergeathigherirradiationdoses.However,variousmodifiedversionsofthistheoryhavebeenusedasthefoundationofdesignandlifepredictioncalculationsforgraphite-moderatedreactors. Thispaperre-examinestheSimmonsrelationship,summarisingitsderivationandassumptions.Therelationshipwasthenmodifiedtoincorporatethehighdose,highstrainchangesthatwereassumedtoberepresentedinthechangesinYoung’smoduluswithirradiationdose.Byscrutinisingthebehaviouroffiniteelementanalyses,itwaspossibletouseamodifiedSimmonsrelationshiptopredictthedimensionalchangesofanisotropicandanisotropicgraphitetohighirradiationdoses. Theseissuesareimportanttopresenthigh-temperaturereactors(HTRs)asthelifeofHTRgraphitecomponentsisdependentupontheirdimensionalchangebehaviour.Agreaterunderstandingofthisbehaviourwillhelpintheselectionanddevelopmentofgraphitematerials.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    894547