Design and Analysis of Inertial Platform Insulation of the ELI-NP Project of Laser and Gamma Beam Systems

All the installations, devices, and annexes within the laser and the gamma ray production system within the ELI-NP project from Magurele are installed on an inertial platform that weighs over 54,000 tons. The platform is made of concrete, is insulated from the outside environment, and is supported b...

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Published inSymmetry (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 12; p. 1972
Main Authors Itu, Calin, Bratu, Polidor, Borza, Paul Nicolae, Vlase, Sorin, Lixandroiu, Dorin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2020
Subjects
Concrete
Eigenvalues
Experiments
Extreme Light Infrastructure
Finite element method
Flatness
Formability
gamma ray
Gamma rays
Inertial platforms
Insulation
laser
Laser beams
Lasers
nuclear installation
Nuclear physics
Shock absorbers
stability
Vibration
Vibration analysis
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Summary:All the installations, devices, and annexes within the laser and the gamma ray production system within the ELI-NP project from Magurele are installed on an inertial platform that weighs over 54,000 tons. The platform is made of concrete, is insulated from the outside environment, and is supported by spring batteries and shock absorbers. The flatness of this platform respects some very strict standards, and, taking into account the processes that take place on the platform, the transmission of the different trepidations of the environment to the inertial mass must be extremely low. For this reason, a static study and a vibration analysis of the platform, performed in this paper, are required. The static analysis verifies if the flatness of the platform can be observed in operating conditions, and the dynamic analysis verifies how excitations coming from the external environment can be transmitted to the measuring equipment. The finite element method is used both to determine the deformability of the concrete platform for different loads, placed at different points and to determine its eigenvalues and its eigenmodes of vibration. The obtained results are analyzed and constructive solutions are proposed to improve the realized system, through a judicious placement of the installations and the distribution of the masses on the platform.
ISSN:2073-8994
2073-8994
DOI:10.3390/sym12121972