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Buckling analysis of gravity support legs for JT-60SA vacuum vessel

Ejiri, Mitsuru*; Kitamura, Kazunori*; Araki, Takao*; Omori, Junji*; Asano, Shiro*; Hayakawa, Atsuro*; Shibama, Yusuke; Masaki, Kei; Sakasai, Akira

In the operation of tokamak, such loads as electromagnetic and seismic are assumed to be imposed on the vacuum vessel (VV), and not a little thermal expansion takes place when VV is baked. The gravity support leg (GS) has to support the loads described above in addition to the dead weight of VV including in-vessel components and compensate deformation. The GS is equipped with plate spring (PS) to have both stiffness and flexibility. In this study, the buckling strength of the PSs was evaluated. The effect of the initial imperfection of the PSs which is assumed to result from machining or welding process on the buckling strength was also studied. It is concluded that GS has sufficient buckling strength against assumed initial imperfections.

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