In the period from 10.04 to 13.04.2018 MUBATEC GmbH specialists organized the IAEA training courses: "Training Course on the Advanced On-line Monitoring Methodology to Predict the Residual Life Time of Critical Structures, Systems and Components through Experimental Approach", 10.04 - 13.04.2018, Rottenacker, Germany.
The IAEA regional training course included lectures and laboratory works and conducted to upgrade the qualification of scientific and technical personnel of European nuclear power plants from 5 countries.
The purpose of the training course is to learn the new technology of on-line condition monitoring of critical equipment in nuclear power plants.
The Regional Training Course provided for the solution of two tasks:
- Familiarization of specialists working in the nuclear power industry with new approaches to assessing operational aging based on the Advanced On-line Monitoring Methodology to Predict the Residual Lifetime of Critical Structures with specific examples.
- Restore necessary and sufficient knowledge to understand the basic mechanisms of operational aging in relation to the equipment of different safety classes.
To solve these problems it was necessary to use full-scale models of equipment and to conduct laboratory work on samples of materials simulating operational aging.
MUBATEC GmbH has these unique features since it has stands where it is possible to show actual operational impacts such as static loading, cyclic loading, vibration loading, etc., and their contribution to the accumulation of damage, as well as laboratory testing machines for complex testing exemplary methods (both destructive and non-destructive).
These opportunities have allowed the optimal combination of lectures and laboratory work for a better understanding of the ways of solving these two problems.
The training course implemented with following parts:
- Part 1: The Initial examination of the object (development of LTO monitoring programme);
- Part 2: Verify the information about the real condition;
- Part 3: Simulation of operation loading using design data;
- Part 4: Design and installation of control systems;
- Part 5: Training calculation of stress-strain by using the finite element model;
- Part 6: Estimation the critical zones and residual lifetime;
- Part 7: Additional laboratory tests of specimen and scale models.
Lectures and seminars conducted on basis of the MUBATEC GmbH office in Rottenacker, Germany.