Health Monitoring of Nuclear Structure Containment Using Strain Gauges to Assess the Integrity

Table 2

Strain Measurements from SMER’s—Pressure from 0 to 1.73 kg/cm².

SMER no.	Location	Legend	Microstrain (𝜇𝜀) at pressure up (kg/cm^2)
			0	0.35	0.7	1.06	1.4	1.73
On steel
SE-55	Dome SG-1 opening, N-S	(S1)	0	22.7	33.7	57.2	88.9	102.7
SE-56	Dome SG-1 opening, E-W	(S1)	0	28.1	42.6	35.4	53.5	38.6
SE-57	Dome SG-1 opening, N-S	(S2)	0	20.1	24.8	−6.5	61.2	20.8
SE-58	Dome SG-1 opening, E-W	(S2)	0	22.5	30.8	4.3	72.1	34.8
SE-59	Dome SG-1 opening, N-S	(S3)	0	22.5	32.9	38.5	93.8	97.5
SE-60	Dome SG-1 opening, E-W	(S3)	0	26.2	37.7	31.6	58.1	33.9
On Concrete
SE-01	Stressing gallery, 84.85M, outer side (N), V	A	0	5.8	4.5	6.9	8.0	8.0
SE-02	Stressing gallery, 84.85M, inner side (N), V	B	0	6.6	6.6	12.7	17.2	17.7
SE-08	ICW (O), 88.1M, (S), V	D	0	0.8	−4.9	−8.6	−7.0	−13.0
SE-25	Ring beam, 133.5M, ICW (N), Cir	M	0	−9.1	−14.4	−16.6	−34.7	−28.1