Steam Explosion/Hydrogen Deflagration and Fast Reactor Core Problems |
Introduction / Surender Bhandari ; Jun Sugimoto |
Loading on Partition Walls Due to Hydrogen Deflagration Tests in a Multi-Compartment Small-Scale Containment / Fabio Fineschi |
Reactor Pressure Vessel Response to a Postulated Internal Steam Explosion Investigation by Model Experiments / R. Krieg ; G. Messemer |
Analysis of Slug Impact Against the Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Interpretation of Berda Test 07 With the Finite Element Code Plexus / C. Strub ; B. Autrusson ; B. Goeller |
Estimation of Mechanical Energy Generated in the Expansion Stage of Vapor Explosions / Tomonori Saiki ; Hirotada Ohashi |
Size Effects on Liquid Impact and Resulting Structural Response / T. Jordan ; T. Malmberg |
Steam Explosion in the Reactor Pit: Parametrical Studies With the Plexus Computer Code / T. Laporte ; M. Lepareux |
Effect Of Water Jet Dynamics in the Coolant Injection Mode of Fuel-Coolant Interactions / Hyun Sun Park ; Norihiro Yamano ; Yu Maruyama ; Kiyofumi Moriyama ; Yanhua Yang |
Mechanical Problems After a Fast Reactor Core Melt-Down / G. Kayser ; D. Wilhelm |
Modelling Creep Behaviour |
The Rupther Programme: Progress Status / Jacques Devos ; Philippe Mongabure ; Claude Sainte Catherine ; Laetitia Nicolas |
Comparative Analysis of Coupled Creep-Damage Model Implementations and Application / S. Bhandari ; J. M. Bergheau ; P. Dupas ; X. Feral ; G. Mottet ; L. Nicolas |
Use of Coupled Damage-Viscoplasticity Model for Creep Tests Analyses / C. Sainte Catherine ; V. Cotoni ; J. Devos |
Simplified Thermo-Visco-Plastic Model for PWR Vessel Behaviour During a Severe Accident / Valerie Diaz ; Jean-Marie Gatt ; Bernard Peseux |
Application of Creep Models for Lifetime Prediction of Ferritic Power Plant Steels / R. C. Hurst ; J. H. Rantala ; F. Bregani |
Reactor Pressure Vessel and Piping Behaviour under Severe Accident Conditions |
EU Research on the Phenomenology and Management of Severe Accidents Under the Current Euratom Framework Programme 1994-1998 / Philippe Dupas ; Georges Van Goethem ; Gerhard Keinhorst ; Joaquin Martin Bermejo ; Alejandro Zurita |
Mechanical Behaviour of a Future Reactor (EPR) During a Severe Accident / Y. Meziere ; J.-R. Schneiter |
Some Aspects of the Boron Acid Behavior in the Reactor Vessel During Scenarios Leading to Severe Accident / T. op den Brouw ; Gy. Gyenes ; M. S. Duarte de Almeida |
Sensitivity Analyses on the Behavior of a Pressure Vessel During a Severe Accident Using Probabilistic Methods / P. Hornet ; J. R. Schneiter |
Creep Failure of a Reator Pressure Vessel Lower Head Under Severe Accident Conditions / M. M. Pilch ; Y. R. Rashid ; J. S. Ludwigsen ; T. Y. Chu |
Specimen Tensile and Piping Failure Tests Under LWR Severe Accident Conditions / Yuhei Harada ; Akio Maeda ; Hiroaki Shibazaki ; Naohiko Nakamura ; Minoru Igarashi ; Akihide Hidaka |
Design and Analysis of Metallic Structures for Corium Confinement Following a Severe Accident / Pietro Paolo Milella ; Giuseppe Maresca ; Giovanni Pino ; Flavio Parozzi |
Creep and Plastic Failure of Reactor Pressure Vessel Lower Head Under Severe Accident Conditions |
Mechanical Behaviour of RPV Materials in Case of Complete Core Melt / B. Riou ; Y. Meyzaud |
Integrity of containment Structures Under Severe Accident Conditions |
Results of Steel Containment Vessel Model Test / Michael F. Hessheimer ; Vincent K. Luk ; John S. Ludwigsen ; Kuniaki Komine ; Tomoyuki Matsumoto ; James F. Costello |
Investigation of Radial Shear in the Wall-Base Juncture of a 1:4 Scale Prestressed Concrete Containment Vessel Model / Robert A. Dameron ; Yusef R. Rashid |
Aging of Steel Containments and Liners in Nuclear Power Plants / Dan J. Naus ; C. Barry Oland ; Bruce R. Ellingwood ; Wallace E. Norris |
Introduction to Nesc |
NESC-PAST, Present and Future / Darren McGarry ; F. Boydon ; J. Wintle ; D. McGarry ; B. Hemsworth |
Comprehensive Pretest Material Characterization: A View to Cleavage Fracture of the NESC1 Spinning Cylinder / R. Rintamoa ; U. von Estorff ; G. Fedeli ; R. Gillot ; B. Houssin |
Comprehensive Pre-Test Material Characterisation: Results of the Characterisation of the HAZ and the Cladding in View of Ductile Fracture of the NESC 1 Spinning Cylinder / J. Rensman ; M. G. Horsten ; J.-G. Blauel ; E. Keim ; G. Wardle |
The NESC 1 Cylinder, A Challenge for NDE Inspection / B. Eriksen ; P. Lemaitre ; R. A. Murgatroyd |
Designing for Crack Growth in NESC-1 Spinning Cylinder / Stuart McAllister |
Pre-Test Structural Assessment |
Pretest Fracture Evaluation of the NESC-1 Spinning-Cylinder Experiment / Janis A. Keeney ; B. Richard Bass ; Paul T. Williams ; Claud E. Pugh |
NESC Spinning Cylinder Thermal Shock Experiment: French Contribution to the Pre-Test Fracture Analysis Evaluation / D. Moinereau ; C. Faidy ; D. Guichard ; M. P. Valeta ; M. Courtois |
A Comparison of Different Failure Assessment Methodologies Applied to the NESC-1 Test / Michael C. Smith ; Andrew H. Sherry ; John Schofield ; R. Phaal ; Ian C. Howard |
German Fracture Mechanics Pretest Analyses on the NESC Cylinder / J. Sievers ; T. Schimpfke ; L. Hodulak ; A. Schopper ; G. Nagel |
The Spinning Cylinder Test |
Manufacture of the NESC Test Cylinder / J. B. Wintle ; R. Hurst |
Introduction of Fatigue Cracks Into the Large Thick-Walled Hollow Cylinder for the NESC1 Project / Kevin May ; Robert Bowdler ; Tony Wightman ; Peter Julisch ; Hans Kockelmann ; John B. Wintle ; Ignazio Iacono |
The NESC 1 Spinning Cylinder Test / R. Bowdler ; D. P. G. Lidbury ; K. A. May ; A. W. Wightman ; F. M. D. Boydon ; J. Hedderly ; H. Kockelmann ; P. Nurkkala |
Author Index |
Steam Explosion/Hydrogen Deflagration and Fast Reactor Core Problems |
Introduction / Surender Bhandari ; Jun Sugimoto |
Loading on Partition Walls Due to Hydrogen Deflagration Tests in a Multi-Compartment Small-Scale Containment / Fabio Fineschi |
Reactor Pressure Vessel Response to a Postulated Internal Steam Explosion Investigation by Model Experiments / R. Krieg ; G. Messemer |
Analysis of Slug Impact Against the Reactor Pressure Vessel Head Interpretation of Berda Test 07 With the Finite Element Code Plexus / C. Strub ; B. Autrusson ; B. Goeller |
Estimation of Mechanical Energy Generated in the Expansion Stage of Vapor Explosions / Tomonori Saiki ; Hirotada Ohashi |