@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00084798,
 author = {Buslakov, I.V. and Kirienko, I.D. and Modestov, V.S. and Loginov, I.N. and Senichenkov, V.A. and E. Mukhin, E. and Litvinov, A.E. and Babinov, N.A. and Tolstyakov, S.Yu. and Chernakov, P.V. and Marinin, G.V. and Terentiev, D.V. and Bulkin, R.S. and Pashkovsky, S.M. and Mokeev, A.N. and Tanaka, S. and Andrew, P. and Nagy, D. and Suguru, Tanaka},
 journal = {Fusion Engineering and Design},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is a nuclear fusion research and engineering project. It
is supposed to be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials and operational regimes
necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity. Front (explored in this paper) and Back
diagnostic racks are used as supporting structures of the so-called ITER Divertor Thomson Scattering (DTS)
Diagnostic System that is created to measure plasma characteristics. They will be attached to the lower port walls
(ITER ports are used to locate diagnostic equipment and its supporting structures) through the so-called Divertor
Rails. The developed design of the Front (Diagnostic) Rack locking (e.g. Rack attachment to the rails mechanism)
was analyzed in this research to be consistent with thermal stresses, electromagnetic and seismic loads taking
into account some specific assembly and maintenance loads including preloading under installation. The analysis
of the rack locking design’s resistance to the mentioned loads should prove correspondence of the suggested
common rack design with the structure integrity criterions. Construction strength under the most severe loading
scenario was estimated in this research and appropriate conclusions were made. It was found out that the stress
criterion was not fully satisfied, so a new rack locking design concept was proposed. Its main details are also
described at the end of this article.},
 title = {Structural analysis of the diagnostic rack locking in ITER lower port #8},
 volume = {173},
 year = {2021}
}