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Hashidate, Ryuta; Kato, Shoichi; Onizawa, Takashi; Wakai, Takashi; Kasahara, Naoto*
Proceedings of ASME 2021 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP 2021) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2021/07
It is very essential to clarify the structure failure mechanisms under excessive seismic loads. However, structural tests using actual structural materials are very difficult and expensive. Therefore, we have proposed the structure test approach using lead alloys in order to simulate the structure failure mechanisms under the excessive seismic loads. In this study, we conducted material tests using lead alloy and verified the effectiveness of the simulated material tests. Moreover, we formulated inelastic constitutive equations (best fit fatigue curve equation and cyclic stress range - strain range relationship equation) of lead alloy based on the results of a series of material tests. Nonlinear numerical analyses, e.g. finite element analyses, can be performed using the proposed equations. A series of simulation material test technique enables structural tests and analyses using lead alloy to simulate the structure failure phenomena under excessive seismic loads.
Hashidate, Ryuta; Kato, Shoichi; Onizawa, Takashi; Wakai, Takashi; Kasahara, Naoto*
Proceedings of ASME 2020 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP 2020) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2020/08
Although it is very essential to clarify how the structure collapses under the severe accident conditions, the failure mechanisms in excessive high temperatures are not clarified. However, it is very difficult and expensive to perform structural tests using actual structural materials. Therefore, we propose to use lead alloys instead of actual structural materials. For demonstration of analogy between the failure mechanisms of lead alloys structure at low temperature and those of the actual structures at high temperature, numerical analyses are required. Although the authors proposed inelastic constitutive equations for numerical analyses in 2019, the equations could not successfully express because of large variations observed in the material tests of the lead alloy. In this study, we propose the improved inelastic constitutive equations of the lead alloy on the basis of the material test results used by aged alloy which can stabilized the material characteristic.
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?Tang, T. L.*; Uesaka, Tomohiro*; Kawase, Shoichiro; Beaumel, D.*; Dozono, Masanori*; Fujii, Toshihiko*; Fukuda, Naoki*; Fukunaga, Taku*; Galindo-Uribarri, A.*; Hwang, S. H.*; et al.
Physical Review Letters, 124(21), p.212502_1 - 212502_6, 2020/05
Times Cited Count：14 Percentile：73.46(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The structure of a neutron-rich F nucleus is investigated by a quasifree (
) knockout reaction. The sum of spectroscopic factors of 
orbital is found to be 1.0 
0.3. The result shows that the O core of F nucleus significantly differs from a free O nucleus, and the core consists of 
35% O
, and 65% excited O. The result shows that the O core of F nucleus significantly differs from a free O nucleus. The result may infer that the addition of the 
proton considerably changes the neutron structure in F from that in O, which could be a possible mechanism responsible for the oxygen dripline anomaly.
Hashidate, Ryuta; Onizawa, Takashi; Wakai, Takashi; Kasahara, Naoto*
Proceedings of 2019 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP 2019) (Internet), 10 Pages, 2019/07
Under the severe accident conditions, structural materials of nuclear power plants are subjected to excessive high temperature. Although it is very essential to clarify how the structure collapses under the severe accident conditions, the failure mechanisms in such high temperatures are not clarified. However, it is very difficult and expensive to perform structural tests using actual structural materials. Therefore, we propose to use lead alloys instead of actual structural materials. Because the strength of lead alloys is much poorer than that of the actual structural materials, failure can be observed at low temperature and by small load. For demonstration of analogy between the failure mechanisms of lead alloys structure at low temperature and those of the actual structures at high temperature, numerical analyses are required. So, we confirm the material characteristics of lead alloys and develop inelastic constitutive equations of lead alloy required for finite element analyses.
Sakai, Takuro; Iikura, Hiroshi; Yamada, Naoto*; Sato, Takahiro*; Ishii, Yasuyuki*; Uchida, Masaya*
QST-M-8; QST Takasaki Annual Report 2016, P. 140, 2018/03
Numata, Naoto*; Asakawa, Tomoyuki*; Sakai, Hiroshi*; Umemori, Kensei*; Furuya, Takaaki*; Shinoe, Kenji*; Enami, Kazuhiro*; Egi, Masato*; Sakanaka, Shogo*; Michizono, Shinichiro*; et al.
Proceedings of 12th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.566 - 570, 2015/09
no abstracts in English
Saito, Tatsuo; Sakai, Akihiro; Sato, Kazuhiko; Yagi, Naoto; Hata, Haruhi; Fumoto, Hiromichi*; Kawagoshi, Hiroshi; Hasegawa, Makoto
JAEA-Review 2014-021, 30 Pages, 2014/07
JAEA-Review-2014-021.pdf:4.51MB
Japan Atomic Energy Agency surveyed the reference cases for the disposal of uranium bearing waste in low activity concentration as the contents of their own category 2 waste disposal facility for the Research and Development Activities. We reviewed the concepts mentioned in IAEA and ICRP documents, reference cases of uranium bearing waste disposal in selected countries (USA, Canada, UK, France and Sweden), and the disposal styles of long-lived radioactive waste were summarized, and the action items for application to the disposal system of our country was arranged. The disposal facilities in selected countries can be classified into 2 types with the length of performance assessment period for intruder scenario. They are long term assessment type and short term assessment type. It seems that the disposal system construction in category 2 waste disposal is the most realistic since there are many precedence examples of each country. Correspondence of 2 types of these disposal facilities is useful as a reference case.
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Metoki, Naoto; Sakai, Hironori; Suzuki, Michito; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Ikeda, Shugo*
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 3, p.013011_1 - 013011_6, 2014/06
Uranium chalcogenides are highly interesting because of the variety of the physical properties from 5
-based metal and Mott-Hibbard insulator. Especially dichalcogenide family exhibits a metal-insulator crossover depending on the chalcogenide elements, or under magnetic field and pressure. In this talk we present a recent result of our neutron scattering study on uranium dichalcogenide, which demonstrates that the metal-insulator crossover is related to the change of 5 character from localized to itinerant. The electronic structure related to this phenomenon is discussed based on the band calculation.
electrons with localized and itinerant charancters in -US
Metoki, Naoto; Sakai, Hironori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Ikeda, Shugo*
Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 62(12), p.1782 - 1786, 2013/06
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：11.39(Physics, Multidisciplinary)Magnetic excitation of a narrow gap semiconductor -USwas studied by means of neutron scattering. At low temperatures clear crystalline electric field (CEF) excitations were observed, indicating localized character of 5 electrons. The excitation energy 7 meV of the pseudo doublet state is consistent with the level scheme based on 5
configuration of U
ions, which reproduces the magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, and specific heat. With elevating temperature the conductivity recovers with 5 carriers excited beyond the gap of 90 K. Simultaneously the CEF excitation becomes weak and broad, and is replaced by a quasi-elastic response of magnetic origin, indicating the crossover of 5 character from localized to itinerant.
SiMetoki, Naoto; Sakai, Hironori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Haga, Yoshinori
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 82(5), p.055004_1 - 055004_2, 2013/05
Times Cited Count：17 Percentile：68.18(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The hidden order parameter in URuSi remains an open question for this quarter of a century. Many type of models have been proposed. The models predict unusual order parameters such as higher order multipole, dynamical origin, or very recently, "hastatic" order, accompanying Ising quasi-particles. We provide neutron scattering data measured at the wave vector 
=(003) for the in-plane magnetic component. The existence of the in-plane component in the order of 0.01 or 10
10
Bohr magneton has been proposed by a recent theoretical studies. The data were obtained also under magnetic field up to 10 T along the [010] direction in order to reveal a possible 
type antiferro-quadrupole (AFQ) order at the propagation of =(001) proposed previously. Our data indicate that there is no in-plane magnetic component within the experimental accuracy of 0.004 Bohr magneton. Namely we could not obtain the results which support these theories.
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nni, A.*; Ozawa, Kiyoshi*; Kitazawa, Hideaki*; Sakai, Osamu*; Pomjakushin, V. Y.*; Keller, L.*; Kaneko, Koji; Metoki, Naoto; Kakurai, Kazuhisa; et al.
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 340, p.012066_1 - 012066_7, 2012/00
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：44.92(Physics, Condensed Matter)We determined the magnetic structure below 
K of the spin-5/2 antiferromagnetic (AF) trimer substance SrMnPO using neutron powder diffraction experiments. The incommensurate propagation vector is expressed as [0, 
, 0], due to competition between the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interactions in trimerized chains. The value of is 0.316 to 0.331, changing rapidly at 
K. We confirmed that the intra-trimer 
interaction is AF. The magnetic excitation peaks were obsereved at 0.46, 0.68, and 1.02 meV. The weak Q dependence indicates the discrete energy levels, which do not contradict the AF trimer model with the intra-trimer interaction value of 0.29 meV (3.4 K).
and Au+Au collisions at 
= 200 GeVAdare, A.*; Afanasiev, S.*; Aidala, C.*; Ajitanand, N. N.*; Akiba, Yasuyuki*; Al-Bataineh, H.*; Alexander, J.*; Aoki, Kazuya*; Aphecetche, L.*; Aramaki, Y.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 83(4), p.044912_1 - 044912_16, 2011/04
Times Cited Count：9 Percentile：49.6(Physics, Nuclear)Measurements of electrons from the decay of open-heavy-flavor mesons have shown that the yields are suppressed in Au+Au collisions compared to expectations from binary-scaled collisions. Here we extend these studies to two particle correlations where one particle is an electron from the decay of a heavy flavor meson and the other is a charged hadron from either the decay of the heavy meson or from jet fragmentation. These measurements provide more detailed information about the interaction between heavy quarks and the quark-gluon matter. We find the away-side-jet shape and yield to be modified in Au+Au collisions compared to collisions.
Metoki, Naoto; Kaneko, Koji; Ikeda, Shugo*; Sakai, Hironori; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Haga, Yoshinori; Homma, Yoshiya*; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*
IOP Conference Series; Materials Science and Engineering, 9, p.012088_1 - 012088_8, 2010/05
Times Cited Count：1 Percentile：54.42(Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear)Inelastic neutron scattering study has been carried out on US. A clear crystalline electric field (CEF) peak has been observed at 7.4 meV, which is consistent with the level scheme obtained from susceptibility data assuming 5f
configuration. The CEF becomes very weak and broad, and a quasi-elastic response emerges above the characteristic temperature 100 K. It indicates the crossover of the 5f character between localized and itinerant. A quasi-elastic response can be concluded as the hybridization effect of the 5f electrons with ligand p-electrons. Our study suggests that the crossover of the 5f character is the origin of the metal-insulator transition in US.
Okajima, Satoshi*; Honda, Kei*; Sakai, Shinsuke*; Izumi, Satoshi*; Oishi, Kunio*; Kasahara, Naoto
Nihon Kikai Gakkai M&M 2007 Zairyo Rikigaku Kanfarensu Koen Rombunshu (CD-ROM), p.262 - 263, 2007/10
It is well known that fatigue damage accumulates around T-junctions of piping system where two kinds of fluid with different temperatures are mixed. Kasahara et al. have proposed the thermal fatigue evaluation method based on power spectrum density (PSD). However, this method is too complex to practical use in the design stage. In this paper, a simplified damage evaluation guideline is proposed based on the Kasahara et al. method. The damage evaluation procedure from stress PSD is simplified in this guideline.
Kasahara, Naoto; Kawasaki, Nobuchika; Kamide, Hideki; Sakai, Shinsuke*; Okajima, Satoshi*
Proceedings of International Symposium on Research for Aging Management of Light Water Reactors and Its Future Trend, p.23_1 - 23_16, 2007/10
Fluid temperature fluctuates at an incomplete mixing area of high and low temperature fluids in nuclear components. It induces random variations of local temperature gradients in structural walls, which lead to cyclic thermal stresses. When thermal stresses and cycle numbers are large, there are possibilities of fatigue crack initiations and propagations. It is recognized that there are attenuation factors depending on fluctuation frequency in the transfer process from fluid temperature to thermal stresses. Considering above fluid-structure interaction against fluid temperature fluctuation, authors has proposed a fatigue evaluation method related to frequencies. JAEA has the plan to develop thermal load modeling guidelines, which has consistency with JSME guidelines for light water reactors.
Kasahara, Naoto; Kawasaki, Nobuchika; Wakai, Takashi; Takasho, Hideki*
Transactions of the 19th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT-19) (CD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2007/08
Tubesheet structures utilized in heat exchangers have complex perforated portions. For design analysis, axi-symmetric models with equivalent materials of perforated plate are conventionally adopted to simplify perforated portions. ASME Sec.III Appendix A-8000 provides elastic constants for equivalent materials of perforated plate. In the case of elevated temperature reactors, elastic-plastic-creep deformation occurs in tubesheets. Therefore, design of these structures requires simplified models with non-linear equivalent materials for perforated plate. This study proposes a general determination method of non-linear equivalent material properties for perforated plates. Perforated plates have their own effective stress ratio (ESR). ESR is a function of geometry only and is independent from constitutive equations. ESR can determine non-linear equivalent material properties of perforated plates for any kind of constitutive equations of base metals.
Sakai, Shinsuke*; Honda, Kei*; Okajima, Satoshi*; Izumi, Satoshi*; Kasahara, Naoto
Proceedings of 2007 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division Conference/8th International Conference on Creep and Fatigue at Elevated Temperatures (PVP 2007/CREEP-8) (CD-ROM), 7 Pages, 2007/07
At an incomplete mixing area of high and low temperature fluids, fluid temperature fluctuation often occurs. It induces cyclic thermal stresses in the wall, which may result in fatigue crack initiation. Kasahara et al. proposed the thermal fatigue evaluation method based on power spectrum density (PSD). This method generalizes the evaluation procedure by preparing PSD charts of fluid and frequency transfer functions of stress for various kinds of plant components. From design point of view, however, this method is too complicated due to the inverse Fourier transform and wave decomposition procedures named Rain Flow Cycle Counting (RFC). In this paper, simplified damage evaluation method for thermal fatigue is proposed by directly evaluating fatigue damage from PSD of stress.
Fe Mssbauer spectroscopy of NpFeGa
in magnetic fieldHomma, Yoshiya*; Nasu, Saburo; Nakamura, Akio; Aoki, Dai*; Haga, Yoshinori; Metoki, Naoto; Sakai, Hironori; Ikeda, Shugo; Shiokawa, Yoshinobu*; Onuki, Yoshichika
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 310(2, Part1), p.440 - 442, 2007/03
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)Fe Mssbauer measurements of NpFeGa has been carried out in external field at 10 kOe. The negative quadrupole splitting QS was enhanced between 70 and 110 K. Negligibly small QS in the paramagnetic state was verified by a measurement of the spectrum in the applied field of 10 kOe. A correlation between the magnetic state and the electric field gradient implies that the origin of hyperfine magnetic field is not only due to the dipole field from magnetic Np atoms, but also from magnetic Fe atoms.
observed by 
Np and Fe Mssbauer spectroscopyHomma, Yoshiya*; Nasu, Saburo; Nakamura, Akio; Nakada, Masami; Aoki, Dai*; Metoki, Naoto; Yamamoto, Etsuji; Sakai, Hironori; Ikeda, Shugo; Haga, Yoshinori; et al.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 75(Suppl.), p.44 - 46, 2006/08
no abstracts in English
Okajima, Satoshi*; Sakai, Shinsuke*; Izumi, Satoshi*; Kasahara, Naoto
Nihon Zairyo Gakkai Dai-21-Kai Zairyo, Kozo Shinraisei Shimpojiumu Koen Rombunshu, p.132 - 137, 2005/12
no abstracts in English
