NEA-0558 BUST.

BUST, Elastic Stress in HTGR Pressurized Fuel Elements

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS, CPU, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: BUST.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
BUST	NEA-0558/02	Tested	07-NOV-1984

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NEA-0558/02	IBM 370 series	IBM 3081

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3. NATURE OF PHYSICAL PROBLEM SOLVED

Calculation of elastic stresses in block type elements when the fuel holes are pressurised.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION: The finite element method.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

NEA-0558/02

NEA-DB executed the test case on IBM 3081 in 7 seconds of CPU time.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM

This programme was written as part of an experiment to test fuel for the Dragon High Temperature Reactor.

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS: STABA, STIG.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NEA-0558/02	07-NOV-1984	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

NEA-0558/02, included references:

- B.E. Pitchford:
'BUST'
Dragon Project Technical Note DPTN/807 (May 1976).

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: 288K bytes of main storage on IBM 3081.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NEA-0558/02	FORTRAN-IV

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM OR MONITOR UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: IBM 370 OS.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

ANY OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR

           B.E.Pitchford
           OECD High Temperature Reactor Project
           AEE Winfrith, Dorchester Dorset, England

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NEA-0558/02

File name	File description	Records
NEA0558_02.003	BUST INFORMATION FILE	66
NEA0558_02.004	BUST SOURCE (CARD IMAGES)	409
NEA0558_02.005	JCL	47
NEA0558_02.006	BUST TEST CASE INPUT DATA	492
NEA0558_02.007	BUST TEST CASE PRINTED OUTPUT	952
NEA0558_02.008	BUST TEST CASE PUNCHED OUTPUT	162

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17. CATEGORIES

I. Deformation and Stress Distributions, Structural Analysis and Engineering Design Studies

Keywords: HTR reactors, elasticity, finite element method, fuel elements, graphite moderated reactors, stresses.