Application of analysis for assembly of integrated components to steel member connections towards seismic safety assessment of plant structures

Nishida, Akemi; Murakami, Takahiro*; Satoda, Akira*; Asano, Yuya*; Guo, Z.*; Matsukawa, Keisuke*; Oshima, Masami*; Nakajima, Norihiro

Transactions of the 25th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT-25) (USB Flash Drive), 10 Pages, 2019/08

Exhaustive studies on external events that may pose a threat to the structures of nuclear facilities and evaluations of the structural integrities are critical to safety. One of the components that greatly influence the behavior of the plant structure is the connection of structural members. In particular, the modeling of the connections has relied on empirical methods, and been conservatively designed and evaluated by considering them as pinned or rigid connections. Therefore, in this research, we have aimed to develop a connection modeling method that reproduces more realistic behavior by utilizing a three-dimensional model of the connection. As the first step of this research, we planned to determine the stiffness of the connections of steel structural members. The results confirmed that the connection can be regarded as a partially-restrained connection depending on the connection specifications of the structure, and the prospects for realistic stiffness evaluation of the connection were determined.

High-power test of annular-ring coupled structures for the J-PARC linac energy upgrade

Tamura, Jun; Ao, Hiroyuki; Nemoto, Yasuo; Asano, Hiroyuki*; Suzuki, Takahiro*

Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 66(3), p.399 - 404, 2015/02

https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.66.399

ACSs are going to increase the beam energy of the J-PARC linac from 181 to 400 MeV. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake damaged the J-PARC facilities and the cavity conditioning was interrupted for two years. After the restoration of the facility, the two ACS cavities (M01 and M11) were conditioned. They achieved to 15-20% above the designed accelerating field of 4.2 MV/m. Since M01 was conditioned six years ago, the conditioning time required for M01 was drastically reduced from that for the first time. During the high-power operation for M11, which is an unique cavity equipped with a capacitive iris in a waveguide, no significant increase of the temperature and the discharge rate around the capacitive iris was observed. The vacuum pressure was sufficiently low (410 Pa) even from the view point of beam loss due to residual gas scattering. The more stable operation can be expected through one-month conditioning before beam commissioning.

Occurrence and potential activity of denitrifiers and methanogens in groundwater at 140 m depth in Pliocene diatomaceous mudstone of northern Japan

Katsuyama, Chie*; Nashimoto, Hiroaki*; Nagaosa, Kazuyo*; Ishibashi, Tomotaka*; Furuta, Kazuki*; Kinoshita, Takeshi*; Yoshikawa, Hideki; Aoki, Kazuhiro; Asano, Takahiro*; Sasaki, Yoshito; et al.

FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 86(3), p.532 - 543, 2013/12

https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12179

Anaerobic microbial activity has a major influence on the subsurface environment, and should be considered in subsurface activities including the construction of radioactive waste repositories. We investigated denitrification and methanogenesis in anoxic groundwater from 140 m depth in two boreholes, where the redox potential fluctuated. The average maximum potential denitrification rates, measured under anaerobic conditions in the two boreholes using an N tracer. Methanogenesis candidates were detected by 16S rRNA gene analysis. Although the stable isotope signatures suggested that some of the dissolved methane was of biogenic origin, no potential for methane production was evident during the incubations. The groundwater at 140 m depth did not contain oxygen, had an Eh ranging from -144 to 6.8 mV, and was found to be a potential field for denitrification.

Microprocessing of arched bridge structures with epoxy resin by proton beam writing

Takano, Katsuyoshi*; Asano, Atsushi*; Maeyoshi, Yuta*; Marui, Hiromi*; Omichi, Masaaki*; Saeki, Akinori*; Seki, Shu*; Sato, Takahiro; Ishii, Yasuyuki; Kamiya, Tomihiro; et al.

Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, 25(1), p.43 - 46, 2012/07

https://doi.org/10.2494/photopolymer.25.43

Fabrication of concave and convex structure array consisted of epoxy long-nanowires by light and heavy ion beams lithography

Takano, Katsuyoshi*; Sugimoto, Masaki; Asano, Atsushi*; Maeyoshi, Yuta*; Marui, Hiromi*; Omichi, Masaaki*; Saeki, Akinori*; Seki, Shu*; Sato, Takahiro; Ishii, Yasuyuki; et al.

Transactions of the Materials Research Society of Japan, 37(2), p.237 - 240, 2012/06

https://doi.org/10.14723/tmrsj.37.237

Study on investigation of microbial effects for geological disposal, 2 (Joint research)

Tochigi, Yoshikatsu; Yoshikawa, Hideki; Aoki, Kazuhiro; Yui, Mikazu; Asano, Takahiro*; Honjo, Hideko*; Haginuma, Masashi*; Kawakami, Yasushi*; Suzuki, Kazunori*

JAEA-Research 2008-025, 55 Pages, 2008/03

JAEA-Research-2008-025.pdf:8.55MB

Results of joint research on fiscal year 2006 between Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) and Institute of Research and Innovative (IRI) titled as "Study on investigation of microbial effects for geological disposal" are described in this report. The objective of this study is to develop a method for estimating microbial effects for barrier performance of geological disposal site. The modeling was performed to examine the effect on the change in groundwater chemistry (mainly by electron acceptors) by microbial metabolism as well as microbial activities. In order to use the data (chemical composition, biomass, etc.) in the MINT code, groundwater was collected from the drilled well prepared for chemical and microbial analyses of groundwater. The well was prepared in observation field near Horonobe Underground Research Center of JAEA in fiscal year 2006. Then, numerical modeling using collected data of groundwater with numerical modeling program code "MINT" considering microbial effects was carried out. The modeling was carried out to evaluate the microbial effect for stability of chemical and microbial composition of groundwater. As the result of the modeling, relatively low microbial effect for groundwater composition was observed in particular for the concentration of dissolved methane, methanogen, sulfur reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfur ion. The result shows that low redox potential is stable in the well in spite of shallow depth.

Novel UV-induced photografting process for preparing poly(tetrafluoroethylene)-based proton-conducting membranes

Asano, Masaharu; Chen, J.; Maekawa, Yasunari; Sakamura, Takahiro*; Kubota, Hitoshi*; Yoshida, Masaru

Journal of Polymer Science, Part A; Polymer Chemistry, 45(13), p.2624 - 2637, 2007/07

A novel process comprising UV-induced photografting of styrene into polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) films and subsequent sulfonation has been developed for preparing proton-conducting membranes. The significance of this process is that the polystyrene can graft throughout the PTFE films. Even through the degree of grafting was lower than 10 %, the proton conductivity of the newly prepared membranes can reach a value similar to Nafion. In comparison with -ray radiation grafting, UV photografting is less damaging to the membranes because significant degradation of the PTFE main chains can be avoided.

Preparation of ETFE-based fuel cell membranes using UV-induced photografting and electron beam-induced crosslinking techniques

Chen, J.; Asano, Masaharu; Maekawa, Yasunari; Sakamura, Takahiro*; Kubota, Hitoshi*; Yoshida, Masaru

Journal of Membrane Science, 283(1-2), p.373 - 379, 2006/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2006.07.008

A novel process comprising UV-induced photografting of styrene into poly(tetrafluoroethylene-co-ethylene) (ETFE) films in vapor and liquid phases, followed by electron beam-induced crosslinking has been developed for preparing polymer electrolyte membranes. The significance of this process is that the photografted polystyrene chains can completely penetrate into the base ETFE film; the membranes show proton conductibility available for fuel cell applications. On one hand, the proton conductivity of the liquid-phase photografted electrolyte membranes is higher than the vapor-phase one, and is anisotropic in the surface and thickness directions. On the other hand, radiation-induced crosslinking greatly improves the chemical stability of the resultant fuel cell membranes, and maintains the surface concentration of sulfonic acid groups at its higher level.

Polytetrafluoroethylene-based proton-conducting membranes prepared by ultraviolet-induced photografting

Chen, J.; Asano, Masaharu; Maekawa, Yasunari; Sakamura, Takahiro*; Kubota, Hitoshi*; Yoshida, Masaru

Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, 9(11), p.G326 - G329, 2006/00

https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2344827

A novel process comprising UV-induced photografting of styrene into PTFE films and subsequent sulfonation has been developed for preparing proton-conducting membranes. The significance of this process is that the graft chains can penetrate throughout the PTFE base films; the resultant sulfonated electrolyte membrane with a low degree of grafting near 7% shows higher proton conductibility and better mechanical properties, similar to those of Nafion membrane. Furthermore, the performances of the UV-photografted electrolyte membranes are better as compared to those of the radiation grafted electrolyte membranes.

Measurement of absolute intensity for high energy SR photons using calorimeter

Asano, Yoshihiro; Kishi, Noriyuki*; Moriya, Takahiro*

AIP Conference Proceedings 705, p.564 - 567, 2004/00

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1757859

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