Speaker
Asbjoern Lund
Description
Description of the design studies undertaken to analyse the core-vessel interface and arrive at the current proposed design.
- Requirements
- Reason for shrink fitting
- General challenges (tolerances, stress, assembly)
- Procedure for shrink fitting of isostatic graphite blocks and lessons learnt
- Impact of titanium vessel and conclusions from prototype
- Challenges of shrink fitting CFC, studies and simulations performed, conceptual CFC shrink fitting procedure and associated design features
- Why shrink fitting of CFC in 318LN is not feasible
