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Book cover Tokamak Engineering Mechanics

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In this opening chapter, we present the structure of world energy and the importance of fusion energy to solve world energy issues. In the view of tokamak as a main plant that produces and utilizes effectively the fusion energy, its basic operating principle and its main components are prescribed. During its being constructed tokamak subjects to engineering problems. The solution of its engineering problems commonly involve different mechanics that include solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer theory, magnetic solid mechanics, MHD, and so on. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a special mechanics for meeting the requirements of design and manufacturing on tokamak. It is thus named as “tokamak engineering mechanics,” which contains statics, thermal stress, fatigue, fracture, and seismic response analysis and interactions in soil–structure and fluid–structure referring to components of the tokamak. The chapter ends with an overview of how our study on engineering mechanics on the tokamak is organized in the chapters to follow.

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  1. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ShuShanHu Road, Hefei, 230031, People’s Republic of China

    Yuntao Song, Weiyue Wu, Shijun Du & Xiaojun Ni

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Song, Y., Wu, W., Du, S., Ni, X. (2014). Introduction. In: Tokamak Engineering Mechanics. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39575-8_1

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