BIFURCATION BUCKLING ANALYSIS AND NON-LINEAR COLLAPSE ANALYSIS OF TEARDROP SHAPED VACUUM CHAMBER

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Abstract

The Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accelerator is being upgraded to increase the beam power from 1.4MW at 1GeV to 2.8MW at 1.3GeV. The currents in the middle two injection chicane magnets cannot simply be scaled up to accommodate the increased injection energy of 1.3GeV due to potential excessive H- stripping; the magnets must be replaced with longer, lower-field magnets and the associated vacuum chambers need to be redesigned. A new teardrop-shaped vacuum chamber was initially designed to accommodate the new magnets and the updated beam paths and instrumentation. This paper focuses on the structural stability study of the teardrop shape vacuum chamber based on buckling analysis. Protection against collapse from buckling according to the ASME BPVC requirement has been evaluated in depth. First, a Type-1 bifurcation buckling analysis using a linear eigenvalue solution to determine the critical load factor was performed. Subsequently, a Type-3 nonlinear collapse analysis was conducted using the static Riks method with elastic-plastic material properties and imperfections explicitly considered in the model geometry. The critical buckling load for the teardrop shape vacuum chamber was confidently estimated based upon this two-stage approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Technology and Bolted Joints; Design and Analysis
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)9780791886151
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
EventASME 2022 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP 2022 - Las Vegas, United States
Duration: Jul 17 2022Jul 22 2022

Publication series

NameAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, Pressure Vessels and Piping Division (Publication) PVP
Volume2
ISSN (Print)0277-027X

Conference

ConferenceASME 2022 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, PVP 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas
Period07/17/2207/22/22

Funding

The authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Drew Winder for providing insightful advice and reviewing the paper. The SNS is sponsored by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, and managed by UT-Battelle, LLC under contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy.

Keywords

  • buckling
  • geometric non-linearity
  • non-linear collapse analysis
  • teardrop-shaped vacuum chamber

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