Preliminary results on quantities of radioactive materials and clearance are also given for the Fusion Energy Advanced Tokamak, ITER-FEAT.
A thorough understanding of bolted joint behaviour is essential to the design of efficient structures from composite materials where clearance rather than interference fits are generally used.
A total of about 1600 images were hence captured for each shearing experiment (combination of material grade, clearance and clamping configuration).
All other material grades, clearances and clamp configurations displayed differences in the same range as shown in Fig. 7e, f.
The strategy chosen reduces permanent radwaste by recycling the in-vessel materials and by clearance of the other structures.
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There was no clear trend of stress triaxiality for either material strength, tool clearance or clamping configuration, but there was still a large spread of measured values.
The images were captured by the high-speed camera when shearing the high strength material at 0.15h clearance and with two clamps.
The sample with the least tool displacement at fracture was the high strength material at 0.15h clearance at a tool displacement of 1.6 mm.
Provided that bolt hole clearance, material non-linearity and bolt hole friction are taken into account, good agreement is observed with experimental data.
