Impact response analysis of a coaxial double-pipe structure

Nishida, Akemi  ; Iigaki, Kazuhiko 

A coaxial double-pipe structure is to be used in the main primary coolant system of a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor. In order to study the vibration characteristics of a coaxial double-pipe structure, hammering tests were performed on test models of a coaxial double-pipe structure. Because the input forces and structural responses included high frequency components in this type of tests, impact response analysis was performed by using spectral element that has high precision in the high frequency domain. By the comparison between analysis results and experiment results, it was confirmed that the analytical results had good agreement with the experimental results. Also we performed parametric studies about damping properties of the test models. As a result of having identified the damping properties using experiment results, it was found that inner pipe and outer pipe had different damping properties. In this paper, these results were shown.