Nuclear | SC Solutions

SC Solutions Engineers Highlight Recent Work at SMiRT 25

Aug 9, 2019 | Uncategorized

SC Solutions had strong participation at the 25th SMiRT conference, held in Charlotte, NC from August 4 – 9, 2019. Together with other nuclear industry leaders and engineers from around the world, SC Solutions engineers are contributing to new ideas for Structural...

Consideration of Non-Uniform Embedment on the Response of Nuclear Plant Structures

Aug 8, 2019

The effects of foundation embedment on the seismic response of structures have long been recognized in the analysis and design of nuclear power plant (NPP) structures. Some design standards allow simple methods to address the embedment effects. However, these methods...

Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction Effects: A Case Study Comparing Two Approaches

Aug 7, 2019

The seismic SSSI effects in the nuclear island buildings for a representative plant are considered. The nuclear island consists of four buildings. The seismic SSSI effects on the lightest and smallest building (building of interest) are analyzed with two different...

Benchmark Study on Impedance Functions of Large Pile Foundations

Aug 7, 2019

In the nuclear power industry large pile groups are used world-wide at soil sites with soft and weak near-surface soil layers as foundations for both safety and non-safety related structures. Entire nuclear power plant (NPP) facilities are founded on piles in areas of...

Soil-Pile-Structure Interaction Analysis: Implementation of Flexible Alternative Theoretical Approach in SASSI Framework

Aug 7, 2019

This paper introduces a new alternative for soil-pile-structure interaction analysis, based on established soil-pile interaction theory, which accommodates a wide range of foundation conditions. A description of the theoretical formulation and its implementation into...

« Older Entries

Next Entries »