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Load Concentration Factor Analysis of Fuel Assembly Guide Thimble

핵연료집합체 안내관의 하중집중계수 해석

  • 이영신 (충남대학교 기계설계공학과) ;
  • 전상윤 (한전원자력연료(주) 설계기술원)
  • Published : 2005.03.01
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Abstract

The top and bottom nozzles of PWR fuel assembly are connected by guide thimbles and an instrumentation tube that are connected with spacer grids. The fuel rods are inserted into the each cell of spacer grids. The loads acting on the fuel assembly are transmitted to the guide thimbles through the flow plate of top nozzle The axial loads applied to the fuel assembly are not equally distributed among the guide thimble due to the geometry of the top nozzle flow plate and spacer grid. In this study, the load concentration factors for the $17\times17$ fuel assembly were calculated. The analytical model fur the calculation of the load concentration factor of top nozzle flow plate was developed using ANSYS 5.6. The finite element analyses were performed using the model composed of top nozzle, guide thimble, and spacer grid. And, the analysis results were compared with the test results.

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