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

Table 3

Strain measurements from SMER’s—pressure from 1.73 to 0 kg/cm².

SMER no.	Location	Legend	Microstrain (μ𝜀) at pressure down (kg/cm^2)
			1.73	1.40	1.06	0.70	0.35	0	0 (24 hrs)
On steel
SE-55	Dome SG-1 opening, N-S	(S1)	102.7	71.8	59.2	37.6	14.9	−8.1	−10.5
SE-56	Dome SG-1 opening, E-W	(S1)	38.6	22.0	31.9	28.3	16.5	−4.5	−4.5
SE-57	Dome SG-1 opening, N-S	(S2)	20.8	−4.0	34.8	27.3	12.8	−8.3	−5.2
SE-58	Dome SG-1 opening, E-W	(S2)	34.8	8.4	47.1	37.2	19.4	−7.2	−2.5
SE-59	Dome SG-1 opening, N-S	(S3)	97.5	67.0	66.8	47.9	25.4	−1.2	−0.4
SE-60	Dome SG-1 opening, E-W	(S3)	33.9	18.3	33.9	30.3	19.0	−4.5	−4.1
On Concrete
SE-01	Stressing gallery, 84.85M, outer side (N), V	A	8.0	3.8	4.3	1.4	0.0	−7.0	−23.3
SE-02	Stressing gallery, 84.85M, inner side (N), V	B	17.7	15.7	10.1	5.2	2.1	−10.1	−33.8
SE-08	ICW (O), 88.1M, (S), V	D	−13.0	−9.0	−3.5	5.1	8.8	15.6	18.3
SE-25	Ring beam, 133.5M, ICW (N), Cir	M	−28.1	−25.9	−19.7	−2.3	14.9	24.1	23.3