[en] The thermal stratification phenomena, frequently occurring in the component of nuclear power plant system such as pressurizer surge line, steam generator inlet nozzle, Safety Injection System(SIS), and Chemical and Volume Control System (CVCS), can cause through-wall cracks, thermal fatigue, unexpected piping displacement and dislocation, and pipe support damage. The phenomenon is one of the unaccounted load in the design stage. However, the load have been found to be serious as nuclear power plant operation experience accumulates. In particular, the thermal stratification by the turbulent penetration or valve leak in the SIS and SCS pipe line can lead these safety systems to failure by the thermal fatigue. Therefore in this study an 1/10 scaledowned experimental rig had been designed and installed. And a series of experimental works had been executed to measure the temperature distribution (thermal stratification) in these systems by the turbulent penetration, value leak, and heat transfer through valve. The results provide very valuable information such as turbulent penetration depth, the possibility of thermal stratification by the heat transfer through valve, etc. Also the results are expected to be useful to understand the thermal stratification in these systems, establish the thermal stratification criteria and validate the calculation results by CFD codes such as Fluent, Phenix, CFX

[en] In this paper, we studied about the effect of the open crack and a tip mass on the dynamic behavior of a cantilever pipe conveying fluid with a moving mass. The equation of motion is derived by using Lagrange's equation and analyzed by numerical method. The cantilever pipe is modelled by the Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The crack section is represented by a local flexibility matrix connecting two undamaged pipe segments. The influences of the crack, the moving mass, the tip mass and its moment of inertia, the velocity of fluid, and the coupling of these factors on the vibration mode, the frequency, and the tip-displacement of the cantilever pipe are analytically clarified

[en] Abrasive flow machining (AFM) is an effective method to finish the smooth surface in the complex holes. Abrasive media are key elements which dominate the polished results in AFM. But it is hard to develop the machining model of these abrasive gels because of its complicated mechanism. In this research, a non-Newtonian flow is used to set up the abrasive mechanism of the abrasive media in AFM. Power law is a main equation of the non-Newtonian flow to describe the motion of the abrasive media. Viscosities vs. shear rates of different abrasive gels are used to establish the power law in CFD-ACE⁺ software first. And the working parameters of AFM were applied as input to study the properties of the abrasive gels in AFM. Finally, the relationships between the simulations and the experiments were found. And the abrasive mechanism of the abrasive gels was set up in AFM. The simulated results show that the abrasive gel with high viscosity can entirely deform in the complex hole than the abrasive gel with low viscosity. And the abrasive gel with high viscosity generates a larger shear force than the abrasive gel with low viscosity in the same area. Moreover, the strain rate is seriously changed when the abrasive gel cross over the narrow cross-section of the complex hole. It also means that abrasive gel will produce large finish force in that area. And these results indeed consist with the experiments in AFM

[en] A nuclear fuel rod support grid is an important structural part of a nuclear fuel assembly which is used in a pressurized light water reactor. It provides a flexible support for the nuclear fuel rods which experience a severe thermal expansion and a contraction caused by the harsh operational conditions in the core of a reactor. Diverse design requirements should be set for the performances of the multidisciplinary natures such as an impact resistance, spring characteristics, possible amount of a fretting wear on the fuel rods, the coolant flow and heat transfer around it, and so on. In this paper, an effort is reported to improve the impact resistance of an OPT-Htype support grid, a high performance spacer grid developed by the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. A systematic approach by using an axiomatic design and optimization is utilized for this purpose

[en] The effects of initial deflection and initial residual stress in steel plate on the out-of-plane deformation and residual stress due to welding are investigated from analysis results of thermal elastic-plastic FEM modeling with large deflection theory. Initial residual stress due to plate forming has very little effects on welding deformation and welding residual stress. For initial deflection, with concave profile (Type I), welding induced deformation has the same type as initial deflection and its magnitudes are small. When initial deflection is in the direction parallel to weld Une (Type II), welding induced deformation has minor variations. When initial deflection is bended in the direction normal to weld line (Type III), welding deformation was largely generated along the width direction of the steel plate. On the other hand, the variation in type of initial deflection does not affect the residual stress and plastic strain

[en] Pulsatile flow of a two-phase model for blood flow through arterial stenosis is analyzed through a mathematical analysis. The effects of pulsatility, stenosis, peripheral layer and non-Newtonian behavior of blood, assuming the blood in the core region as a Herschel-Bulkley fluid and the plasma in the peripheral layer as a Newtonian fluid, are discussed. A perturbation method is used to solve the resulting system of non-linear quasi-steady differential equations. The expressions for velocity, wall shear stress, plug core radius, flow rate and resistance to flow are obtained. It is noticed that the plug core radius and resistance to flow increase as the stenosis size increases while all other parameters held constant The wall shear stress increases with the increase of yield stress while keeping other parameters as invariable. It is observed that the velocity increases with the axial distance in the stenosed region of the tube upto the maximum projection of the stenosis

[en] Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) is generally used for the high frequency analysis in various areas. In the present paper a SEA-related study concerning coupled structures consisting of beams and plates is discussed. Firstly, the Fourier technique is explained to obtain the energies and power flows for excitation on the beam and the plate. Then, these are used in the Power Injection Method (PIM) to obtain the effective Coupling Loss Factors (CLFs) of the single beam-plate system. Overlapping octave bands are used in a frequency average approach. Based on the analysis for the beam-plate structure, the beam-plate-beam structure is also investigated in the SEA framework. It is found that the indirect coupling in an SEA sense may exist for such a beam-plate-beam coupled structure. The numerical result shows that its effect is larger when the dimensions of beams are similar

[en] This paper presents the dynamic magnetoelastic stress intensity factors of a Yoffe-type moving crack at the interface between two dissimilar soft ferromagnetic elastic half-planes. The solids are subjected to a uniform in-plane magnetic field and the crack is opened by internal normal and shear tractions. The problem is considered within the framework of linear magnetoelasticity. By application of the Fourier integral transform, the mixed boundary problem is reduced to a pair of integral equations of the second kind with Cauchy-type singularities. The singular integral equations are solved by means of a Jacobi polynomial expansion method. For a particular case, closed-form solutions are obtained. It is shown that the magnetoelastic stress intensity factors depend on the moving velocity of the crack, the magnetic field and the magnetoelastic properties of the materials

[en] Tensile tests were conducted on several cast aluminum specimens with different degrees of porosity. The effects of non uniform void size and shape distributions, including spherical and non spherical types, on stress-strain behavior resulting from different initiation mechanisms were investigated. A micro mechanics based statistical approach was employed, and the heterogeneous microstructures could therefore be modeled during the deformation process. The predicted changes of the distributions of void size and void shape generally agreed with experimental results. Void spatial variation was also quantified, and its effects on the level of failure were analyzed. The void spatial variation facilitated development of inhomogeneous deformation, which results in failure

[en] The present article aims to report the effects of hydrodynamic slip on entropy generation in the boundary layer flow over a vertical surface with convective boundary condition. Suitable similarity transformations are used to transform the fundamental equations of hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layer flow into ordinary differential equations. The governing equations are then solved numerically using the shooting method and the velocity and the temperature profiles are obtained for various values of parameters involved in the governing equations. The expressions for the entropy generation number and the Bejan number are presented and the results are discussed graphically and quantitatively for the slip parameter, the local Grashof number, the Prandtl number, the local convective heat transfer parameter, the group parameter and the local Reynolds number. It is observed that due to the presence of slip, entropy production in a thermal system can be controlled and reduced