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Report number	FERMILAB-PUB-20-118-TD
Title	Fracture failure analysis for MQXFA magnet aluminum shells
Author(s)	Pan, Heng (LBNL, Berkeley) ; Anderssen, Eric C (LBNL, Berkeley) ; Ambrosio, Giorgio (Fermilab) ; Cheng, Daniel W (LBNL, Berkeley) ; Ferracin, Paolo (CERN) ; Prestemon, Soren O (LBNL, Berkeley) ; Takala, Eelis Tapani (CERN) ; Vallone, Giorgio (LBNL, Berkeley)
Publication	2020
Number of pages	7
In:	IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 30 (2020) 4002307
DOI	10.1109/TASC.2020.2972230
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Accelerator/Facility, Experiment	HL LHC AUP
Abstract	The High-Luminosity LHC Accelerator Upgrade Project (HL-LHC AUP) is approaching the production phase of the US-contributed Q1 and Q3 Interaction Region Quadrupoles (MQXFA). The structures for the MQXFA prototypes were design and inspected by the US-LARP (LHC Accelerator Research Program), AUP developed criteria, which will be used for the pre-series structures. As the first two full-length prototypes with 4.2 m magnetic length, MQXFAP1 and MQXFAP2, were designed and assembled at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and tested at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The end aluminum short shell of MQXFAP2 was fractured along the shell length during the test, and tests were stopped. Analytical and Finite Element analysis were performed in light of the graded procedure defined in the Structure Design Criteria to investigate the fracture failure for MQXFAP2. In this paper, we report the fracture analysis of the current shell design, including the elasto-plastic simulations with submodel technique, and calculations with Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM). Test material properties are also presented. The results of this analysis explain why the end shell of MQXFAP2 failed, and suggest fillets on the end shell notches to meet the margin specified in the Structural Design Criteria.
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