For this purpose, the influence of several key variables on the behaviour of beam-column joints are inspected using results of parametric studies on an experimental database compiled from a large number of exterior joint tests.
Therefore, the first step in thermal design codes validation for sodium heat exchangers, e.g., DHX and AHX, has been successfully completed with the experimental database obtained from STELLA-1.
Model validation builds upon an experimental database that spans from embedment testing on the material scale up to joint testing on the structural scale.
An experimental database was gathered from the available literature and processed to obtain the training and testing databases for the derivation of the closed-form solution through GEP.
The experimental database was acquired from a well-scaled natural circulation test facility, which was designed to investigate the startup flow instabilities for a BWR-type Novel Modular Reactor (NMR-50).
Fifteen samples are selected from experimental database and the heat transfer and flow friction characteristics are analyzed.
Ethane was chosen as a reference fluid and the experimental database comprises 3163 points from 37 substances (polar, non-polar and hydrogen-bonding ones).
As a result, weights that are found to be optimal based on the analysis of one experimental database might be far from optimal for another database.
There are 26 correlations found, and an experimental database containing 3220 data points from vertical tubes are compiled from nine independent laboratories.
