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The ITER Cryostat, the largest SS vacuum pressure chamber ever built which provides the vacuum confinement to components operating in ITER ranging from 4.5 k to 80 k. Cryostat Design Model was qualified by ITER. As a Safety Important Class system, Design qualification at every change in its development and installation phases is mandatory. The Cryostat system is currently at manufacturing stage, several Deviation request are being reported e.g. tolerances change. These changes affect the behavior of Cryostat which needs re-assessment. The conventional design approach in Finite Element method (FEM) needs significant time and effort, as incorporation of changes calls for redevelopment of full mathematical model (MM).
In this paper a “unique method” of developing FE model for complex systems like Cryostat is presented, which typically addresses above need and the method is qualified with results of Cryostat engineering model (CEM). This unique method involves dividing and meshing of the big components in to sub components, so the full Cryostat is divided into 30 sub components and MM of these individual components are developed. These sub components are integrated using suitable constraint equations to create full FE model. Then the integrity of model is assessed using the modes shapes. This unique method enables to incorporate component level changes without affecting the full FE model, thus saving time and efforts of re-development of MM.
For qualification of developed FE model category II loading and selected load combinations are applied. The results obtained are in close approximation with CEM results. As the present need was to address the changes of MM, so further Cryostat manufacturing FE model (CMM) is developed with this unique approach. It is analyzed for category II loading and selected load combination.
This paper gives detailed insight about the developing and qualification of the Unique Method and analysis results.
