Abstract
A new and more rigorous structural evaluation of the ISX toroidal field (TF) coil fingers joints was undertaken to assess the effects of high- beta operation of ISX-B. A new poloidal field (PF) coil set which allows high- beta operation and produces larger out-of-plane loads on the TF coils was installed as part of the change to ISX-B. It was determined that the iron core significantly affects the out-of-plane load distribution and forces were calculated using the GFUN-3D code which considers 3-D iron core effects. These loads were applied to a half-symmetric finite element NASTRAN code model in which the TF coils were modeled as a string of beam elements.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 60-64 |
Number of pages | 5 |
State | Published - 1979 |
Event | Unknown conference - San Francisco, CA, USA Duration: Nov 13 1979 → Nov 16 1979 |
Conference
Conference | Unknown conference |
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City | San Francisco, CA, USA |
Period | 11/13/79 → 11/16/79 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Engineering