Effects of Initial Imperfections on Buckling of Bottom-supported LMFBR Vessel
SHEW Chang- kang, SHEN Yuan
(Research Institute of Structure Engineering and Disaster Reductioni Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China)
In this paper, when initial imperfections exist at the support skirt or at the main vessel of LMFBR vessel respectively, the static analogue analysis on bucking behavior under seismic excitation were carried out. At first, on the case of normal atmospheric temperature (20℃) or high temperature (400℃ ), and there is or no liquid in the main vessel repectively, the buckling loads and modes under hor-zontal seismic excitation for perfection LMFBR vessel were analyzed by Super-SAP93 code. Then, two distribution types of initial imperfections were assumed. The first type is that the buckling mode obtained from normal atmospheric temperature and no liquid case for perfection LMFBR vessel is by way of the initial imperfections. The second type is that the wave numbers of vertical direction and the maximum value of the initial imperfections are defined with formula. The calculation results indicate that the buckle appears all on the support skirt whether at normal atmospheric temperature or at high temperature, whether there is liquid or no liquid, whether initial imperfections exist at the support skirt or at the main vessel. The buckling load decreases with the increase of maximum value of initial imperfections when imperfections exist at the support skirt. But the effects of initial imperfections for the buckling load is few when imperfections exist at the main vessel.
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