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Primary Coolant Flow Characteristics As It Exits The Palisades Reactor, Gregory Alan Baustian
Primary Coolant Flow Characteristics As It Exits The Palisades Reactor, Gregory Alan Baustian
Masters Theses
During fuel cycles 9 and 10 at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, new phenomena have been observed using the resistance temperature devices installed in the reactor coolant piping. Oscillations in the temperature readings have been observed leading to the assumptions that there is temperature stratification of the coolant in the reactor hot-legs and that the coolant rotates as it leaves the reactor. In addition, oscillations in the bulk coolant flow within the two hot legs have been postulated. This report outlines work performed using computational fluid dynamics modelling which predict the observed and assumed flow characteristics of the Palisades reactor …
Analysis Of Sandwich Plates Subjected To Blast Loading, Vijay Prasad Bulla
Analysis Of Sandwich Plates Subjected To Blast Loading, Vijay Prasad Bulla
Masters Theses
A dynamic analysis is presented for the bending response of square sandwich plates with isotropic core and facings under blast type pressure. The maximum central deflections of simply supported plates under static and dynamic loadings are compared for various thicknesses and elastic moduli. The deviation of the thick sandwich plate results from the pure-bending theory results is presented for various core properties. Small deflection dynamic iso-response plots are shown for different core rigidities. To study the limits of small deformation linearity for various sandwich plates, non-linear results for deformations under high pressure loads are compared with the linear results. The …