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Mechanical Dynamic Load of the LHC Arc Cryo-magnets during the LHC Installation
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- O. Capatina, K. Artoos, G. Huet, B. Nicquevert
CERN, Geneva
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About 1700 LHC main superconducting dipoles and quadrupoles will have to be transported and handled between the assembly, the magnet measurements and the storage that precedes the final installation in the LHC tunnel. To ensure the required mechanic and geometric integrity of the cryo-magnets, transport specifications and allowed acceleration loads were defined after detailed dynamic analysis. A large number of cryo-magnets are now arriving at CERN on a regular basis. The logistics for the handling and transport are monitored with tri-axial acceleration monitoring devices that are installed on each cryo-magnet. Measurements are made to commission new equipment like overhead cranes, tunnel transport and handling devices to guarantee that the defined acceleration limits are respected. The results from the acceleration monitoring that are stored in the same quality assurance system as the cryo-magnets allowed to give a first idea of the level of the mechanical dynamic load on each magnet throughout the logistics chain and were used to detect details such as out-of-specification accelerations that needed improvement.
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| WEPLT016 |
Logistics of LHC Cryodipoles: from Simulation to Storage Management
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- K. Foraz, B. Nicquevert, D. Tommasini
CERN, Geneva
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The particles traveling in the Large Hadron Collider are guided by superconducting magnets. The main magnets (cryodipoles) are 16 m long, 30 tons objects placed with accuracies of few tenths of mm and therefore imposing challenging requirements for handling and transportation. Numerous contracts are constraining the production and installation of these cryodipoles. These contracts have been rated according to the baseline schedule, based on a "just in time" scheme. However the complexity of the construction and the time required to fully test the cryodipoles before installation in the LHC required to decouple as much as possible each contract from the others' evolutions and imposed temporary storage between different assembly and test steps. Therefore a tool simulating the logistics was created in order to determine the number of cryodipoles to store at the various stages of their production. In this paper the organization of cryodipole flow and the main challenges of logistics are analyzed on the basis of the planning of each main step before installation. Finally the solutions implemented for storage, handling and transportation are presented and discussed.
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