Summary of Stress Analysis and Design Qualification

of Top End Fitting of AHWR

1. Various loads acting on the end fitting are

1) Design Pressure
2) Bending stress on tail pipe nozzle
3) Bending stress on ECCS pipe nozzle
4) Weight of fuel assembly
5) Clamping force
6) Partial weight of fuelling machine
7) Offset force during fuelling

2. Finite element modeling of coolant channel assembly

Stress Analysis of AHWR coolant channel top end fitting

Top end fitting of coolant channel is modeled in ansys for carrying out stress analysis
(Figure 1, 2 and 3). Twenty nodded brick element is used in this model. Only half part of
the end fitting is modeled so as take advantage of symmetry. FEM model has 60732
nodes and 14292 elements. Stress analysis is performed for all above load cases and
stress intensity is evaluated at critical locations.

3. Results

Allowable Design stress intensity values at design temperature of 300 oC.

SS304LN :Sm=115.14 N/mm2 (ASME section 2)

SS403 :Sm=225 N/mm2 (CAN/CSA-N285.6.8-88)

Stress intensities because of design pressure at different paths:

Table 1 Stress Intensity for top end fitting of CCA. Load combinations: Pressure alone

pm (N/mm2)
Pl (N/mm2)
Description of path Material
Applied
Allowed Allowed
Applid
(Sm) (1.5 Sm)
Near Top of TEF SS403 63.08 225 65.57 337.5
ECCS nozzle SS304LN 20.53 115.14 63.79 172.7
Tail pipe nozzle SS304LN 35.42 115.14 61.04 172.7
Near bottom of TEF SS304LN 63.075 115.14 63.57 172.7

Stress intensities because of all loads at different paths:

Table 2: Load combinations (all design loads 1 to 7 as described earlier)

pm (N/mm2) Pl (N/mm2)
Description of path Material
Allowed Allowed
Applied Applid
(Sm) (1.5 Sm)
Near Top of TEF SS403 63.08 225 67.23 337.5
ECCS nozzle SS304LN 232.25 115.14 264.9 172.7
Tail pipe nozzle SS304LN 134.26 115.14 196.9 172.7
Near bottom of TEF SS403 63.08 225 71.12 337.5
 Figure 1: Finite element model of top end fitting

Figure 2: Finite element mesh details at crotch region

 Figure 3: Stress intensity for design pressure load at tail pipe nozzle

Figure 4: stress intensity for design pressure load at ECCS pipe nozzle
Figure 5: stress intensity for all load combinations at tail pipe nozzle