• DOI:10.13182/FST13-727
Corpus ID: 51903434

Thermal Discrete Element Analysis of EU Solid Breeder Blanket Subjected to Neutron Irradiation

@article{Gan2014ThermalDE,
  title={Thermal Discrete Element Analysis of EU Solid Breeder Blanket Subjected to Neutron Irradiation},
  author={Y. Gan and F. Hernandez and D. Hanaor and R. Annabattula and M. Kamlah and P. Pereslavtsev},
  journal={Fusion Science and Technology},
  year={2014},
  volume={66},
  pages={83 - 90}
}

Y. Gan, F. Hernandez, +3 authors P. Pereslavtsev

Published 2014

Materials Science, Physics

Fusion Science and Technology

Abstract Due to neutron irradiation, solid breeder blankets are subjected to complex thermo-mechanical conditions. Within one breeder unit, the ceramic breeder bed is composed of spherical-shaped lithium orthosilicate pebbles, and as a type of granular material, it exhibits strong coupling between temperature and stress fields. In this paper, we study these thermo-mechanical problems by developing a thermal discrete element method (Thermal-DEM). This proposed simulation tool models each… CONTINUE READING

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