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Surrogate fuel assembly multi-axis shaker tests to simulate normal conditions of rail and truck transport

McConnell, Paul M.; Koenig, Greg K.; Uncapher, William U.; Grey, Carissa A.; Engelhardt, Charles E.; Saltzstein, Sylvia J.; Sorenson, Ken S.

This report describes the third set of tests (the “DCL^a shaker tests”) of an instrumented surrogate PWR fuel assembly. The purpose of this set of tests was to measure strains and accelerations on Zircaloy-4 fuel rods when the PWR assembly was subjected to rail and truck loadings simulating normal conditions of transport when affixed to a multi-axis shaker. This is the first set of tests of the assembly simulating rail normal conditions of transport.