WJP execution method for reactor vessel lid and jigs

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9789585-B2
Application number	US-201214374183-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2012
Priority date	Jan 30, 2012
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

In a WJP execution method for a reactor vessel lid, WJP is executed on the inner surface of the reactor vessel lid in a state in which an underwater environment is formed on the inner surface of the reactor vessel lid and an aerial environment is formed on the outer surface thereof. In addition, the reactor vessel lid with a waterproof jig attached thereto is arranged in water, the waterproof jig having a cylindrical shape extending to the side of the outer surface of the reactor vessel lid and constituting a vessel with the reactor vessel lid as the bottom portion thereof. Moreover, the reactor vessel lid is arranged on a base installed in the water.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A water jet peening (WJP) execution method for a reactor vessel lid, comprising:
forming an underwater environment on an inner surface of the reactor vessel lid and an atmospheric environment on an outer surface of the reactor vessel lid;
executing WJP on the inner surface of the reactor vessel lid.

2. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 1 , further comprising:
attaching a waterproof jig having a cylindrical shape extending at a side of the outer surface of the reactor vessel lid and constituting a vessel with the reactor vessel lid as a bottom portion thereof; and
disposing the reactor vessel lid in water.

3. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 2 , wherein
the reactor vessel lid is supported by a base in the water.

4. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 3 , wherein
the base is arranged to extend over a flange portion of a reactor vessel main body, at which the reactor vessel lid is secured to the reactor vessel main body by a guide stud bolt.

5. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 3 , wherein
the base is arranged inside a cavity in which the underwater environment is formed and at a position outside a reactor vessel main body.

6. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 1 , wherein
a guide stud bolt for guiding the reactor vessel lid is replaced with a new guide stud bolt which is shorter than the guide stud bolt.

7. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 2 , wherein
the reactor vessel lid is arranged in the water in a state of being hung.

8. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 1 , wherein the underwater environment on an inside of the reactor vessel lid is formed in such a way that the water is filled in the cavity having a reactor and the reactor vessel lid is submerged in the water of the cavity.

9. The WJP execution method for the reactor vessel lid according to claim 1 , wherein
a water chamber communicating with the inner surface of the reactor vessel lid is formed, and the outer surface of the reactor vessel lid is arranged in the air outside the water chamber.

10. A jig comprising:
a reactor vessel lid disposed at a bottom; and
a barrel that is attached on a periphery of the reactor vessel lid and has a cylindrical shape to surround a side of an outer surface of the reactor vessel lid.

11. The jig according to claim 10 ,
wherein the barrel is made of a plurality of pieces having cylindrical shapes arranged in an axial direction.

Assignees

• Sakashita Hideshi
• Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Sakashita Hideshi

Classifications

• C21D7/06

  by shot-peening or the like · CPC title

• G21C21/00

  Apparatus or processes specially adapted to the manufacture of reactors or parts thereof (in general section B, e.g. B23) · CPC title

• C21D9/50

  for welded joints · CPC title

• B24C1/10 Primary

  for compacting surfaces, e.g. shot-peening (for deforming sheet metal, tubes or profiles B21D31/06; as a metallurgical treatment C21D7/00, C22F1/00) · CPC title

• C21D1/00

  General methods or devices for heat treatment, e.g. annealing, hardening, quenching or tempering · CPC title