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
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
Journal title :
Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
