Abstract
An integration design platform is under development for the design of the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR). It mainly includes the integration physical design platform and the integration engineering design platform. The integration engineering design platform aims at performing detailed engineering design for each tokamak component (e.g., breeding blanket, divertor, and vacuum vessel). The vacuum vessel design and analysis module is a part of the integration engineering design platform. The main idea of this module is to integrate the popular CAD/CAE software to form a consistent development environment. Specifically, the software OPTIMUS provides the approach to integrate the CAD/CAE software such as CATIA and ANSYS and form a design/analysis workflow for the vacuum vessel module. This design/analysis workflow could automate the process of modeling and finite element (FE) analysis for vacuum vessel. Functions such as sensitivity analysis and optimization of geometric parameters have been provided based on the design/analysis workflow. In addition, data from the model and FE analysis could be easily exchanged among different modules by providing a unifying data structure to maintain the consistency of the global design. This paper describes the strategy and methodology of the workflow in the vacuum vessel module. An example is given as a test of the workflow and functions of the vacuum vessel module. The results indicate that the module is a feasible framework for future application.
Highlights
The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a superconducting tokamak currently under conceptual design
The impact on finite element (FE) results of t1 and t2 is at least double that of other parameters, which indicates that the stress level of vacuum vessel (VV) greatly depends on t1 and t2
The objective of optimization is to minimize the mass of VV
Summary
The China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) is a superconducting tokamak currently under conceptual design. Several system codes have been developed by different organizations (SYCOMORE by CEA [2, 3], Process by CCFE [4, 5], and TSC by FEDC [6]) These system codes greatly improve the efficiency of tokamak conceptual design. The function of the engineering platform of CFETR is to conduct the design and engineering analysis of CFETR components (e.g., magnetic coils or blanket and vacuum vessel) The required software such as ANSYS and CATIA is integrated by OPTIMUS to provide an engineering design framework. The input and output data are stored in a database for further utilization This manuscript describes the development of the engineering design and analysis module of the vacuum vessel (VV) in integration engineering platform.
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary 
Published Version (
Free)
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call