Peter H. Titus
Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Under Contract to:
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Peter H. Titus - NW22-237, MIT Plasma Fusion Center,185 Albany Street,
Cambridge Ma 02139-4294
Peter H. Titus, 225 Church St., Duxbury Ma. 02332
Home: (617) 934 0293 Office: (617) 253 1344, Fax: (617) 253 0807, EMail: titus@pfc.mit.edu
Web Page: http://psfc.mit.edu/vc/titus/home.html
Personnel : Married, Three children
Current Title(Stone & Webster): Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer, Mechanical Division
Employment: 25 years with Stone & Webster, of which the last 12 years
has been assigned to MIT Plasma Fusion Center. Prior to this, he was a graduate student.
Current Assignment: Next Step Options (NSO)/FIRE, Magnet Structures
Recent Assignment: ITER Home Team Representative, Magnet Structures

Education:

State University of New York at Stony Brook - M.S., Mechanics (1973)

Cornell University - B.S., Mechanical Engineering (1971)

C.W. Post College - Graduate courses in Management
Engineering, Computer Science, Engineering
Economy, and Accounting (1972)

Licenses and Registrations: Professional Engineer (Mechanical), Massachusetts, 1976

Mr. Titus is currently assigned full time to MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (MIT-PSFC). He is assigned to the FIRE/Next Setp Options effort directed by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Prior to this he was assigned to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Project as the Home Team representative for structural analysis of the magnet system. This included creation and maintenance of large scale global structural models of the ITER reactor, analysis of local details, and the participation in the design and R&D processes. He was responsible for the coordination of the US magnet structural efforts and representing this work at meetings at the ITER Joint Central Team at Naka Japan. He has been assigned to MIT-PFC for the last 10 years. He also has analytic responsibilities in support of MIT-PFC's other magnet engineering efforts in fusion, high energy physics and transportation (magnetic levitation). Other activities include initial design and analysis of the Alcator C-Mod reactor, and later design modifications. Mr. Titus has extensive experience in the use of the ANSYS finite element code. He is a capable FORTRAN and BASIC programmer.
He worked on the magnet system for the Gamma Electron Muon (GEM) detector for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC). This was to be an extremely large this sheet solenoid which used cable-in-conduit superconducting cable. Mr. Titus was responsible for the global analysis of the coil and it's supports as well as local modeling of the cable and sheath. Along with another Stone & Webster engineer, Len Myatt, he was responsible for structural calculations of the poloidal coil system for the CIT/BPX line of proposed reactors. This included global modeling of the central solenoid structure as well as other external ring coils and internal coils. He has supported reactor studies such as ARIES and continuations of work on the small high field reactor, IGNITOR, and a DOE study of a scaled-up version of IGNITOR. In 1991 he analyzed a series of toroidal field coil test coil configurations for the ITER project. Both structural and magnetic behavior were studied. His non-fusion related work included a contract to assist the SSC Lab in structural modeling of quench thermal stresses in the dipole magnets.
Beginning in 1986, he worked on the Alcator C-Mod project, performing extensive calculations of the behavior of the C-Mod structure, vacuum vessel, and TF coils. He participated in the design process, particularly in the TF design, the TF finger design, and design of the vertical load carrying structures. A seismic analysis of the reactor and facility was performed. It included the reactor, test cell structure, and soil springs appropriate for the Cambridge Mass. site. Analyses were done to support conceptual and final design, and later evaluation of failures in the central solenoid and PF coil leads. In 1981 and 1982, Mr Titus was assigned to Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, (PPPL) as a visiting engineer. In this time period, he was the sole participant in the Remote Handling Program for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). He Contributed to the development of a remote handling program plan for a proposed upgrade of the TFTR; helped evaluate remote handling capability of vendors, including Westinghouse Hanford, NES, and a Canadian team of CAE, SPAR Aerospace (builders of the space shuttle arm) and Ontario Hydro; and investigated commercial robotics capabilities and their applicability to remote servicing of the TFTR. He also performed simulations of the operation of an articulated boom and servo manipulators that were proposed for use inside the TFTR vessel.
Prior to his work in magnets and fusion, Mr. Titus was involved in the design and construction of fission reactors. He supervised seismic qualification of mechanical equipment, and was Equipment Specialist for nuclear fuel handling and storage equipment. In this role he gained extensive experience in vendor liaison, and technical and analytic bases for the design and manufacture of nuclear equipment.