FEA Case Study: Pressure Vessel Deformation Analysis The image below shows the results of an analysis of a pressure vessel that exhibited permanent deformation after being subjected to hydrotesting.

A typical FEA analysis of an RPV takes into account temperature transients, internal pressure fields, and the radiation embrittlement behavior of the vessel during a simulated LOC event.

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Results The elastic-plastic analysis for each crack size uses 20 analysis steps for equilibrium convergence and to provide output sets at each pressure load.

The pressure load always acts normal to the walls of the pressure vessel. Linear analysis of this scenario assumes that the shape of the vessel does not change, which is incorrect.

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