AbstractThe EU-Home Team is in charge of the R&D related to the ITER Baffle First Wall. Five small-scale mock-ups, using Be, CFC and W tiles and different armour/heat-sink material joints under development, have been fabricated and thermomechanically tested in FE200 (Le Creusot) and JUDITH (Jülich) Electron Beam facilities. The small-scale mock-ups have been submitted to thermo-mechanical fatigue tests (up to failure using accelerating techniques). The objective was to determine the performances of the armour material joints under high heat flux cycles.
Manufacturing of small-scale mock-ups and of a semi-prototype of the ITER Normal Heat Flux First Wall
Thermal fatigue testing of an ITER primary wall small scale mock up