Tuesday, July 1st    10:30 - 12:30
Challenges in Mechanics for Nuclear Plants I
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Pierre Verpeaux and Stéphane Andrieux
Room: CAS1.5
MS123A
10:30 Challenges in Numerical Simulation of Welding of Nuclear Components
Philippe Gilles, Elisabeth Keim, Andre Thomas and Josette Devaux

10:50 Modelling Complex Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems with EUROPLEXUS Fast Dynamic Software
Pascal Galon, Vincent Faucher, Folco Casadei and Sergueï Potapov

11:10 Advanced Modelling with the X-FEM of Dynamic Crack Propagation and Arrest in Ferritic Steel
Benoit Prabel, Stéphane Marie and Alain Combescure

11:30 Fully Automated 3d-Crack Propagation Analyses based on Tetrahedral Finite Elements
Hiroshi Okada, Hiroshi Kawai, Yasuyuki Kanda, Toshimitsu Fujisawa and Genki Yagawa

11:50 Advanced Modelling of the Reinforced Concrete Structures under Soft Impact
Serguei Potapov, Pierre Koechlin, Stephane Andrieux and Laurent Daudeville

12:10 1D vs 3D Modelling of the Tendons in a Representative Structural Volume of a Concrete Containment Building
Ludovic Jason, Shahrokh Ghavamian and Alexis Courtois

Tuesday, July 1st    14:00 - 16:00
Challenges in Mechanics for Nuclear Plants II
Joint IACM – IUTAM Minisymposium

Minisymposium organized by Pierre Verpeaux and Stéphane Andrieux
Room: CAS1.5
MS123B
14:00 Parallel Computing for Mechanical Nuclear Analysis
Jean-Yves Cognard and Pierre Verpeaux

14:20 Coupled 1D Thermohydraulic - 3D Thermomechanical Study of a Space Nuclear Reactor
Serge Pascal

14:40 TOUTATIS: Pellet-Cladding Interaction (PCI) Modelling with the Cast3M Finite Element Code
Fabrice Bentejac, Nicolas Hourdequin, Claude Strub and Jean Marc Humbert

15:00 Multi-scale Modelling Integration Platform: Computation of the Irradiation Damage on Nuclear Materials
Stéphane Bugat, Joumana El Gharib, Jean-Michel Proix and Asmahana Zeghadi

15:20 Fully Coupled Time-Varying Links using Lagrange Multipliers for Fast Transient Dynamics using EUROPLEXUS
Vincent Faucher, Hariddh Bung and Folco Casadei

 

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