Search Results - "Maione, Ivan"
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Transient thermal analysis and structural assessment of an ex-vessel LOCA event on the EU DEMO HCPB breeding blanket and the attachment system
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-11-2018)“…In the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) breeding blanket (BB) is being developed. A blanket attachment system is also…”
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Development of force reconstruction method on EU ITER TBM based on strain measurements
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-11-2017)“…•Possibility to reconstruct electro-magnetic forces on the ITER TBM is presented.•Type of sensors and algorithm to optimize sensor arrangement is…”
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Structural assessment of the HCPB breeding blanket segments in the EU DEMO reactor under normal operation and a central plasma disruption
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-11-2018)“…•Study of structural integrity of HCPB DEMO blanket with current attachment system.•Thermo-structural FE analysis with 3D segment considering nonlinear…”
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Evaluation of EM loads distribution on DEMO blanket segments and their effect on mechanical integrity
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-11-2016)“…•Two DEMO 2015 ANSYS FEM models (for EM and structural analysis) have been implemented based on the EU-HCPB concept.•Lorentz’s forces have been calculated and…”
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Experimental results and validation of a method to reconstruct forces on the ITER test blanket modules
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-10-2015)“…•An in operation force measurement system for the ITER EU HCPB TBM has been developed.•The force reconstruction methods are based on strain measurements on the…”
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Investigation of Electromagnetic Sub-Modeling Procedure for the Breeding Blanket System
Published in Journal of Nuclear Engineering (01-01-2023)“…The outcome of the electromagnetic (EM) analyses carried out during the DEMO pre-conceptual phase demonstrated that EM loads are relevant for the structural…”
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Study on remanent magnetization of Fe-9Cr steel and its effect on in-vessel remote handling for future fusion reactors
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-10-2013)“…► The FM model of a DEMO reactor has been implemented in ANSYS for EM analysis on blanket segments. ► An approximate method to overcome a limitation of ANSYS…”
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Development of load specifications for the design of the breeding blanket system
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-08-2020)“…•Identification of single loads for the BB System.•Identification of the loads combination for the BB System.•Selection of short-list of loads combination for…”
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Experimental defect dynamics driven by phase gradient in liquid-crystal electro-convective patterns
Published in Physica. D (15-10-2004)“…In this work, we observe experimentally the dynamics of the defects of a periodic convective pattern obtained in a liquid crystal n…”
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A reduced-order model to estimate first wall particle and heat fluxes for systems codes
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-07-2024)“…•development of TOKES surrogate models to quickly compute heat/ion far-SOL FW loads.•methodology uses PCA and novel information criteria expression for model…”
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Systems Engineering approach in support to the breeding blanket design
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-09-2019)“…Nowadays the Systems Engineering (SE) methodology is applied in several fields of engineering and it represents a powerful interdisciplinary means to enable…”
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Electromagnetic analysis activities in support of the Breeding Blanket during the DEMO Pre-Conceptual Design Phase: Methodology and main results
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-05-2021)“…During the DEMO Pre-Conceptual Design Phase, a strong effort has been made within the EUROFusion Consortium to define a methodology for the implementation of…”
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Update of electromagnetic loads on HCPB breeding blanked for DEMO 2017 configuration
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-07-2020)“…•An electromagnetic (EM) model of a DEMO 2017 reactor configuration has been developed considering the HCPB concept.•A VDE-up plasma scenario has been…”
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A complete EM analysis of DEMO WCLL Breeding Blanket segments during VDE-up
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-09-2019)“…Considerable effort is made within the EUROfusion consortium to analyse the electromagnetic (EM) loads that act on the in-vessel components of DEMO during…”
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Analysis of EM loads on DEMO WCLL breeding blanket during VDE-up
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-11-2018)“…This work presents the development of a DEMO EM model based on the WCLL design able to evaluate EM loads during normal and off-normal operations. The model has…”
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Design and setup of a testing device to investigate a reduced sized attachment system mock up for the ITER EU HCPB-TBM under different mechanical loading conditions
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-10-2014)“…•A measurement system is developed to measure the electro-magnetic forces acting on the ITER EU HCPB TBM during operation.•A system based on the measurement of…”
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Overview of the HCPB Research Activities in EUROfusion
Published in IEEE transactions on plasma science (01-06-2018)“…In the framework of the EUROfusion's Power Plant Physics and Technology, the working package breeding blanket (BB) aims at investigating four different BB…”
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Structural assessment of the EU-DEMO WCLL Central Outboard Blanket segment under normal and off-normal operating conditions
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-06-2021)“…Within the framework of the EUROfusion design activities concerning the EU-DEMO Breeding Blanket (BB) system, a research campaign has been carried out at the…”
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Thermo-mechanical study of high heat flux component mock-ups for ITER TBM
Published in Fusion engineering and design (01-10-2015)“…•Infrared radiation heaters for test of plasma facing component available at KIT.•Numerical model developed and validated to check uniformity of heat…”
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A New Approach for Characterizing the Energetic Magnetic Behavior of Fe-9Cr Steel Under Transient Conditions
Published in IEEE transactions on instrumentation and measurement (01-12-2012)“…The aim of this paper is to evaluate the magnetic properties and losses of the Fe-9Cr steel under nonperiodic conditions of the magnetic field. A new approach…”
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