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A Study of Autonomous Elastic Plastic Hydride Blisters

Durgé, Elias LU (2016) In TFHF-16/5208 FHL820 20152
Solid Mechanics
Abstract
This thesis presents a finite element solution to the problem of swelling inclusions inside a host matrix. The FE simulations aim to mimic the behaviour of hydrides nucleating and growing inside a zirconium body with a heat expansion analogy, this is done with both a multi-step and single step technique carried out in the commercial FE software ABAQUS. The model mesh was generated with a Python script and a user subroutine *UEXPAN governed the heat expansion analogy. The user subroutine was written in the FORTRAN programming language. The goal with the simulations is to better understand swelling hydride inclusions, in particular so called blisters, and how they affect the mechanical state of their surroundings.
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author
Durgé, Elias LU
supervisor
organization
course
FHL820 20152
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Finite elements, FEM, zirconium, zirconium hydride, hydride blisters
publication/series
TFHF-16/5208
language
English
id
8871072
date added to LUP
2016-08-19 12:01:35
date last changed
2016-08-19 12:01:35
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  abstract     = {{This thesis presents a finite element solution to the problem of swelling inclusions inside a host matrix. The FE simulations aim to mimic the behaviour of hydrides nucleating and growing inside a zirconium body with a heat expansion analogy, this is done with both a multi-step and single step technique carried out in the commercial FE software ABAQUS. The model mesh was generated with a Python script and a user subroutine *UEXPAN governed the heat expansion analogy. The user subroutine was written in the FORTRAN programming language. The goal with the simulations is to better understand swelling hydride inclusions, in particular so called blisters, and how they affect the mechanical state of their surroundings.}},
  author       = {{Durgé, Elias}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{TFHF-16/5208}},
  title        = {{A Study of Autonomous Elastic Plastic Hydride Blisters}},
  year         = {{2016}},
}