Published 1995 | Version v1
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Reduction of operational vibration and seismic design of the feedwater piping system of the VVER-440/213 at PAKS

  • 1. Nuclear Power Plant Paks Ltd. (Hungary)
  • 2. Siemens AG, Erlangen (Germany). Power Generation Group

Description

The feed-water piping system in unit 3 of the nuclear power plant in Parks was suffering strong operational vibration. To reduce this vibration and also ti increase the seismic safety, the piping was analysed and optimised. In order to solve the problem measuring and calculations were combined efficiently: Vibrations measured were used both for a first evaluation of damaging potential of the operational vibrations as well as for the optimisation of a calculation model. The reduction of the operational vibrations and the improvement of the strength during earthquake were achieved by means of viscous dampers, the parameters, the parameters of which were determined by a strategy of maximizing the energy dissipation in the relevant frequency range. The calculation showed a significant reduction of the operational vibrations for the system with dampers. The vibration amplitudes are reduced 1/10 of the original values. The measurements designed have in the meantime been partially carried out and the measurements confirm the favourable prognosis of the calculation. (author). 4 refs., 6 figs

Part of:
Transactions of the 13. International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology. v. 2

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Editora de Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.
Imprint Place
Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil)
ISBN
85-7025-350-8
Imprint Title
Transactions of the 13. International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology. v. 2
Imprint Pagination
897 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 329-334.

Conference

Title
13. International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology.
Dates
13-18 Aug 1995.
Place
Porto Alegre, RS (Brazil).

Optional Information

Notes
Imprint:Conference organized by the International Association for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.