T2K –280

Magnet
YOKE

COILS

MOVING SYSTEM
ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT
COOLING CIRCUIT
CONTROL & SAFETY SYSTEM
C.Gargiulo
corrado.gargiulo@roma1.infn.it
tel+390649914256
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Components and parameters
MAGNET SUPPORT STRUCTURE

RAILS

DAMPER
S
HORIZ S T
ONTAL
AN D H RU CE
VERTI T OR
C AL F
MOVIN
G
DEVIC Lead srews
E
Gear motor
Position precision (working position) <10mm
Total supported weight ≈1000T 848 T(Yoke), 24 T(carriage), 80T(ecal) , 10(Photo-multiplyer)
Opening Moving distance ≈7.5m
Minimum moving frequency ≈ 1/year
Total working time ≈ 10 year
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Magnet Support Structure: ITEM 3

The Magnet Support Structure has two basic functions:

2) Carry the weight of magnet and Ecal
3) Act as interface between the moving system and
the load

Structure should also withstand horizontal forces which occur during acceleration and
braking phase of moving periods
The stability of the system should also be considered since the center of mass of the
magnet is relatively high.

Re-use of the existing carriage support beam structure from UA1 experiment
Final loads of Side MRD, ECAL and…have to be known to verify the structure .
One additional motor support to the structure has to be fixed if the solution of one single gear motor per
half magnet will be adopted for the moving system

Present weight of each carriage is about 11tons

The support structure is the only part of the MMS of UA1/Nomad available
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Horizontal moving devices

ITEM 7 foot

ITEM 8 dampers

ITEM 9 rollers

ITEM 4 rails
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Rails ITEM 4
No rails is available from Nomad

Rails versus fundation:

Rails have to be mounted on top of a steel plate and a layer of special fluid concrete
in order to distribute the load uniformely to the foundation.

Rails versus Moving System:

The straightness and parallelism deviations can be compensated with alignment
screw and a movable levelling device on each side of the rail.
The alignment of the rails over the distance of the UA1 magnet displacement should
be well within the specifications. Rollers are very sensitive for height variations.

DIMENSION SCHEME

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Rails ITEM 4

Rails versus Moving System:

The rails will be in sections alligned and
assembled toghether
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Dimensions in mm

1100
400

2500

A RY
IN
LIM

4500
E
PR
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Horizontal moving device ITEM 9 Roller

Rollers are one of the smallest heavy transport devices with the highest carrying capacity available.
They consist of a frame fabricated from high alloy steeel and a chain of cylindrical steel rolls
Their solid construction enables wide range of application for many conditions and long product life
with minimum maintanace
No horizontal moving devices is available from Nomad
Proposed Design: n. 8 Roller Skates for each yoke halves (assumed 500T per halves)
Roller Model V AS-H-50CrV4 (roller 50CrV4)
number of rollers: 17
number of rollers under stress: 6
Maximum load: 85 T
Weight: 93 kg
Guiding rolls installed against rails
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dampers ITEM 8

Rollers are sensitive to alignment errors in

rail. Based on that there has to be elasticity
between the roller and support structure to
compensate the errors.

No horizontal moving devices is available from Nomad

Proposed suspension system is based on spring disk.

Foreseen 4 spring units for each roller. A spherical connection to the carriage ensures
an uniform loading for each spring disk.

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Vertical moving device ITEM 10

The hydraulic jacks between the
carriage and the cavern floor. The
whole structure could be finally
supported by twelve jacks
n.12 100-tons hydraulic cylinders
for each magnet half
Hydraulic jacks
Enerpac

 Design under development

-Pit reinforced not only under the rails but also

under the jacks
Hydraulic jacks -modification to the Magnet foot
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Vertical moving device ITEM 11 Hydraulic jacks

 The hydraulic jacks are between the carriage and the cavern floor. The whole structure is finally
supported by six jacks
 n.12 100-tons hydraulic cylinders for each magnet half
 Contact area of the piston head is 198cm2. To distribute this rather high surface pressure of the
head to concrete , a steel plate should be embedded on contact area against concrete floor.
 The clinder piston has a spherical head that compensate alignment errors in contact surface of the
order of +/-2°

 The cylinder are equipped with locking nut devices that keep the device in
the correct position in case of pressure drop
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Vertical moving device control

 Hydraulic Jack related required components:

 Standard electrical pump with capacity of 40 liters and pressure of 700bars

Minimum required pump capacity Vmin= Number of jacks per jacks oil capacity
=20 l+50%(piping)
Minimum continuos working pressure Pmin= Magnet half load/(6xPiston Surface Area)
=415 bar+40%bar (speed)

 Control Unit for each half magnet

 Distribution line to jacks
 Height measuring device at each jack

 Enerpac produces this kind of component:

“Syncronous lift system SLS 16B or SLS 16P 61”
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Gear motor dimension by mean of two shafts drives the two lead screws

shaft

shaft

Gear motor
Lead screw

-shaft
-lead screw
-lead screw head fixation
-motor support
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Gear motor dimension ITEM 12-13-14-25

 In the Nomad experiment each screw is driven by an individual motor which mean that two motors
are required to move one magnet half.

 The experiences of this system among users are negative.

Problem in the control of the sincronization between the two motors resulted in time consuming
manual control .

 A solution that foreseen one single gear motor that, by mean of two shafts, drive the two lead
screws, is being investigated

Motor OVERALL parameters determination:

Weight of one magnet half m≈500000 kg
Rolling coefficient for the rollers µrollers=0.03
Lead screw efficency ηscrew =0.2
gear efficency ηgear =0.9
screw advancing per revolution d=48mm/23revolutions=2.09mm/rev
required magnet displacement speed v=100mm/min=0.0017m/s

Required gear output speed n=v/d=100/2.09 ≈48rpm

Required movig force F= µrollers x m x g=500000x0.03x9.81= 147150N
Required power P= (F x v)/ η =147150x0.0017/(0.2x0.9)=1.39kW
Required torque M= Px9550/n=1.39x9550/48=277Nm