Abstract
Outofplane (OOP) loads on a Toroidal Field (TF) coll, caused the Interaction of the poloidal field and toroidal field call current, have been a challenge in recent tokamaks, such as CMOD, ITER, 1GNITOR, and FIRE, These loads have been an Important structural problem, often driving the structural design of the magnet system as much as the large Inplane loads. Each of the tokamak designs discussed has unique problems in supporting the OOP loads. Stresses due to Inplane loads may be readily predicted from simple relations, and these are typically used In systems codes to size reactors, Support of OOP loads Is typically statically Indeterminant, and requires larger scale structural simulation, In recent tokamaks, with highly shaped plasmas, major design challenges resulted when the OOP load carrying features were added. OOP support issues relating to these reactors arc discussed In greater detail in this paper. A simplified method for calculating OOP shear stresses and their distributions, suitable for system codes, is presented.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 636640 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Mar 2000 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering