Title of article
Modelingofmulti-bodythermo-mechanicalandcontactproblemsinCANDUfuelOriginalResearchArticle
Author/Authors
S.D.Yu، نويسنده , , S.Xu، نويسنده , , H.H.Yang، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
Pages
24
From page
235
To page
258
Abstract
Modelingandanalysisofthree-dimensionalthermo-mechanicalandmulti-bodycontactproblemsinaCANDU®nuclearfuelelementarepresentedinthispaper.Eachaxisymmetriccomponentinafuelelementisfirstmodeledusingthethree-dimensionalnine-nodeharmonicfiniteelements.Allinteriordegreesoffreedom(DOF’s)inthecomponentequationsofequilibriumaresubsequentlyeliminatedthroughsub-structuringtoformulatesystemequationsintermsofsmallsetofcontactvariables.Thelargescalemulti-bodycontactprobleminaCANDU6fuelelementisthensolvedusingthecombinationsoffiniteelementmethod(FEM),linearcomplementaryequationmethod(LCEM)andLemke’salgorithms.TheentireprocedureisimplementedintotheFUEL3Dcode.NumericalresultsarecomparedwithanalyticalandANSYSsolutionsforseveraltestcases.
Journal title
Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
Serial Year
2004
Journal title
Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
Record number
894765
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