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THERMAL<br />

STRESSES IN FUEL ELEMENTS<br />

Thin cylindrical pellets<br />

<strong>The</strong> rods <strong>of</strong> a fuel element are made in the form <strong>of</strong> flat thin<br />

pellets - disks (Fig. 2.15a). <strong>The</strong> disk is in a two-dimensional<br />

stressed state. <strong>Stress</strong> in the direction <strong>of</strong> the x-axis is zero.<br />

<strong>The</strong> quantities a, At = f(r), E, are given. We must find<br />

B .T.<br />

a <strong>and</strong> where ar are radial <strong>and</strong> 0 are circular stresses.<br />

tmn 4to At 0<br />

t2<br />

(a)<br />

to<br />

0t<br />

to to to<br />

--- • 0 .. -0 0t<br />

(b)<br />

Fig. 2.15.<br />

Temperature gradients.<br />

From the symmetry <strong>of</strong> the problem it<br />

follows that radial displacements<br />

u depend only on rvadius r while circular displacements v<br />

in the direction q are zero. <strong>The</strong>n the main deformations have the<br />

form:<br />

du I (<br />

hence<br />

C<br />

-7<br />

( • , )+ aAt,<br />

r<br />

E<br />

E+ du ( )Atl. (2.2)<br />

r drJ<br />

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