[en] The Nuclear Engineering Department at Israel Electric Company has been engaged for a number of years in a joint research agreement with the Technion Nuclear Reactor Research Group on various thermal-hydraulic aspects of reactor design and safety. Besides developing their own analytical models, the researchers rely heavily on the RELAPS computer code in their analyses. The RELAPS series are general purpose, thermal-hydraulic system codes, used to simulate system response (such as the RCS) to transients and accidents. They are based on solving the equations of conservation of mass, energy and momentum within the system being modeled, where the model is a series of control volumes connected by junctions. The equations are solved simultaneously in each volume and junction using a finite difference numerical scheme. As an example, a recent report refers to containment response to a large LOCA in an AP600-like advanced rector. This work has been performed using RELAPS/Mod2. Accidents like LOCA represent design base events necessary to verify the adequacy of the emergency core cooling system, the passive containment system and other safety systems. The validation of simulation results is therefore important to the IEC staff responsible for monitoring the research. (author); 3 refs

[en] This report is about trend and application of CAD/CAM system, giving descriptions of computer aided design which helps construction, engineering and drafting tasks. It also tells of computer aided manufacturing related general design of manufactures, which includes process design, production management, decision of work technology, processing. The need and application of CAD/CAM system is increasing more and more for industry each area.

[en] Advance Modeling for Next-Generation Accelerator Applications

[en] This report contains the abstracts and the program for the 7th DOE workshop on Computer-Aided Engineering

[en] This book introduces Auto CAD 14, which includes summary of basic things of Auto CAD 14, user interface for Auto CAD, basic drawing and advice, layer and set-up drawing, drawing with Auto CAD tools exactly, basic drawing of every thing, edit command, control of display, modeling and view ports of drawing space, various things drawing, writing letters, modification of floor plan, and check, block, X ref, lines and hatch, writing measurement, floor plan and OLE exchange of data, 3D floor plan, and rendering and presentation.

[en] The expert system described here is used to design small bore piping in nuclear power plants. The system addresses a domain within the automatic design paradigm. It is installed in a UNISYS mainframe environment. This paper examines the nature of the small bore piping design domain as practiced in the United States and its suitability for expert system application. The architecture, the context structure, the knowledge base, the control module and the implementation of the expert system are presented. (orig.)

[en] Many computer programs and a variety of models exist for the design of accelerator lattices and the correction of errors. Many physicists contributed to this work by developing codes to suit a variety of machines. At present, we are integrating some of these codes into a unified framework to design and control any type of machine. We will refer to this system of interactive accelerator design, control, and analysis codes as the All-In-One Modeling system (AIM). This paper will explore the utilities of AIM for future accelerator modeling and control. As an example, we will describe a procedure to produce both a linear and a nonlinear model for SPEAR

[en] Various scaffold fabrication methods have been explored to enhance the cell interaction effects and mechanical properties of scaffolds in bone regeneration. Rapid prototyping (RP) for tissue engineering is a useful technology that may provide a potential scaffolding structure to regenerate, restore, and repair a damaged bone tissue or organ, that is, RP is a promising tissue engineering technique through a 3D scaffold fabrication by using a computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing system. In this study, 3D β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) scaffolds were fabricated by a novel direct-write assembly method. The mechanical property of β-TCP scaffolds was analyzed by stress-strain curves by using a compression testing machine. Furthermore, an in vitro CCK-8 assay of osteosarcoma MG-63 cells showed the significant cell attachment and proliferation in the β-TCP scaffold.

[en] Using the concept of surface impedance associated with a superconductor or normal conductor's plate, we extend the CAD (computer aided design) formalisms on modeling and simulation of superconducting and normal transmission lines (STL and NTL) in order to include hybrid transmission lines (HTL). STL and NTL are entirely made of superconductor or normal conductor materials, respectively. In this paper, HTL refers to a planar transmission line (TL) such as parallel plate (PPTL), microstrip (μTL) and coplanar waveguide (CPW) whose ground plate is superconducting and whose top/center strip is a normal conductor or vice versa. We develop and present a set of closed-form equations in a tidy and succinct form for each configuration (STL, NTL and HTL) for widely-used planar TLs (PPTL, μTL and CPW). They can be easily implemented in a systematic way by the user for the purpose of fast TL design. The results obtained with this CAD tool are compared with previously reported results in the literature, and good agreement is observed.

[en] Highlights: • Design features are embedded in CAD files to deter counterfeiting. • Secure designs print in high quality only under a specific set of parameters. • STL resolution, slicing direction, and orientation on printer bed are controlled. • Use of spline and internal surfaces for demonstrating security features The additive manufacturing (AM) process chain relies heavily on cloud based resources and software programs that are connected to the internet. Cybersecurity has become a major concern for cloud based resources. While network security is important and is the responsibility of the information technology departments of corporations, a second line of defense is necessary if the cybersecurity is breached and the computer aided design (CAD) files are stolen. The stolen CAD files can be used to print components in exactly the same quality as the original component. The present work aims at developing design features in CAD models that can be used for the purpose of security against counterfeiting. With the introduction of these features, only a unique combination of processing and printing parameters will provide a high-quality component and any other conditions will result in a defective or inferior quality component. The high quality part will print only under a unique set of STL file resolution, slicing conditions, part orientation on the print bed and the printer operating parameters. It is recognized that these features are not off-the-shelf technologies but represent design methodologies that need to be developed for the given component design and the desired AM technique.