Published August 1984 | Version v1
Report

Behavior of spherical PWR-containments close to reinforced sections under excessive internal pressure

  • 1. Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany

Description

It is assumed that the pressure inside the containment is growing montonically. The response, including the failure of the containment shell at zones located close to reinforced sections, must be investigated. For this purpose a computer program has been developed and checked with several membrane experiments. It turns out that membrane failure is controlled by plastic instability. Some shortcomings in modelling the necking regions which occur around reinforced sections still need to be resolved

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Proceedings of the second workshop on containment integrity
Journal Page Range
p. 575-590.
Report number
NUREG/CP--0056

Conference

Title
2. workshop on containment integrity.
Dates
13-15 Jun 1984.
Place
Crystal City, VA (USA).