Building Assembly Libraries

The assembly library forms the backbone of the unified modeling approach in OSCAR-5. This involves the specification of:

  • All assemblies or components loaded into the main core grid.

  • Sub irradiation rigs or experiments that are loaded into defined component facilities.

  • The reactor pool or vessel.

An assembly library is constructed by writing a build module for each assembly type. These build modules contain all the information necessary to construct the assembly/component, and must not depend on any other assembly. Thus, the system allows assemblies to be constructed and maintained independently from one another, possibly by separate people. In particular, each assembly can have its own data source, version and version history. This introduces some modularity in the overall model quality control.

Since many structural materials are common to various components, the materials module can be used to ensure some consistency between models. See Specifying Materials for details on how to specify and use materials.

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