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PROCESS is a systems code at UKAEA that calculates in a self-consistent manner the parameters of a fusion power plant with a specified performance, ensuring that its operating limits are not violated, and with the option to optimise to a given function of these parameters.
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TF coil: Resistive magnet Young's modulus #1046

Closed jonmaddock closed 2 months ago

jonmaddock commented 4 years ago

In GitLab by @skahn on May 12, 2020, 16:27

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The presence of inter-turn insulation is not present in the resistive stress calculation. The Young's modulus must be modified to take this into account. As the fraction taken by the insulation varies as a function of the radius, the corresponding Young's modulus will be radially dependent

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Best regards
Seb Ref : @stuartmuldrew, @mkovari and @jmorris-uk

jonmaddock commented 4 years ago

In GitLab by @mkovari on May 12, 2020, 16:33

A diagram showing the cross-section of the resistive TF coil would be desirable.

jonmaddock commented 4 years ago

In GitLab by @skahn on May 23, 2020, 08:36

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jonmaddock commented 3 years ago

In GitLab by @skahn on Feb 5, 2021, 13:53

marked the task Change the vertical young modulus to take the cooling and the insulations. as completed

ym1906 commented 2 months ago

@mkovari Do you have any thoughts on whether this change is worth implementing in the stress calculation?

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We would need to develop a model for the positions of the cooling channels, to get a radially dependent calculation of Young's odulus - if I understand this correctly.

mkovari commented 2 months ago

Modify the toroidal smeared young modulus expression to take insulation layer as a function of R and see if an analytical solution still holds.

We would need to develop a model for the positions of the cooling channels, to get a radially dependent calculation of Young's modulus

Deriving a radially dependent Young's modulus may be easy, but obtaining an analytical solution looks very difficult to me unless you already understand Seb's mathematics, and maybe even then.

The insulation has two effects: (a) it changes the distribution of stress in the copper, and (b) it might itself fail at sufficiently high stress. In the supercon TF calculation we include the first effect but not the second, since we don't calculate the stress in the insulator.

I suspect the presence of the insulation won't make much difference to the peak stress in the copper.

What it will do is act as a compliant layer, taking up any gap between the copper and the bucking cylinder, which is a good thing.

I am a bit worried the cooling channels could collapse. It is straightforward to calculate the stress concentration around the hole due to the tangential and radial stress in the copper, working in two dimensions and ignoring the effect of the hole on the overall stress distribution. One could then add the vertical stress as well to derive the maximum shear stress for the Tresca failure criterion.

Final question - is anyone interested in the resistive TF coil?? @ym1906

ym1906 commented 2 months ago

Thank you for your comments Michael. After asking around, I think this is a large issue which should be converted to a discussion as it will require some careful planning and thought before initiating work on this task.