Meso-scale Modeling of Irradiation Damage in Pressurized Water Reactor Concrete Biological Shields

Alain Giorla, Hai Huang, Yann Le Pape (2016). "Meso-scale Modeling of Irradiation Damage in Pressurized Water Reactor Concrete Biological Shields." In Proceedings of FraMCoS 9, Berkeley, California, USA.

Alain Giorla, Hai Huang, Yann Le Pape. "Meso-scale Modeling of Irradiation Damage in Pressurized Water Reactor Concrete Biological Shields." Paper presented at FraMCoS 9, Berkeley, California, USA, 2016.

Alain Giorla, Hai Huang, Yann Le Pape, "Meso-scale Modeling of Irradiation Damage in Pressurized Water Reactor Concrete Biological Shields," in Proc. FraMCoS 9, Berkeley, California, USA, 2016.

@inproceedings{alain-giorla2016,
  title     = {Meso-scale Modeling of Irradiation Damage in Pressurized Water Reactor Concrete Biological Shields},
  author    = {Alain Giorla, Hai Huang, Yann Le Pape},
  year      = {2016},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of FraMCoS 9},
  address   = {Berkeley, California, USA},
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Meso-scale Modeling of Irradiation Damage in Pressurized Water Reactor Concrete Biological Shields
AU  - Alain Giorla
AU  - Hai Huang
AU  - Yann Le Pape
PY  - 2016
T2  - Proceedings of FraMCoS 9
CY  - Berkeley, California, USA
UR  - https://framcos.org/wp-content/uploads/framcos-papers/Meso-scale_Modeling_of_Irradiation_Damage_in_Pressurized_Water_Reactor_Concrete.pdf
AB  - Neutron irradiation exposure causes aggregate expansion, namely radiation-induced volumetric expansion (RIVE). The structural significance of RIVE on a portion of a prototypical pressurized water reactor (PWR) concrete biological shield (CBS) is investigated by using a meso- scale nonlinear concrete model with inputs from an irradiation transport code and a coupled moisture transport-heat transfer code. RIVE-induced severe cracking onset appears to be triggered by the ini- tial shrinkage-induced cracking and propagates to a depth of > 10 cm at extended operation of 80 years. Relaxation of the cement paste stresses results in delaying the crack propagation by about 10 years.
ER  -