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SC Solutions’ Ben Kosbab Presents Plenary at ICAPP

Apr 9, 2018 | Structural Engineering

Dr. Ben Kosbab (Principal Engineer at SC Solutions) presented the benefits of using seismic isolation to simplify and standardize nuclear power plant designs at a plenary session of the 2018 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants (ICAPP). The...

Using Seismic Isolation to Simplify and Standardize NPP Designs

Apr 8, 2018

Recent studies have demonstrated that the capital cost of new nuclear is not dominated by the Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) and balance-of-plant (BOP) technologies, but rather by the indirect costs, i.e. how the plants are built (including labor costs),...

Soil-Structure Interaction: Project Gains Through Use of High-Performance Computing

Aug 22, 2017

For decades, the System for Analysis of Soil Structure Interaction (SASSI) program and its derivatives has been an accepted and favoured analysis tool for treatment of seismic soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects on nuclear facilities. With continued advances in...

Seismic SSI Analyses in the Nuclear Industry: Time Domain vs. Frequency Domain

Aug 21, 2017

The nuclear industry has been a pioneer in recognizing the importance of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) and its effects on the dynamic response of structures and components during an earthquake. Equivalent linear analysis in frequency domain (ELFD) is the current...

Seismic Isolation of a Nuclear Structure: Impacts on Construction Cost and Seismic Risk

Aug 20, 2017

Base isolation will substantially reduce horizontal seismic demands in structures, systems and components (SSCs) in nuclear facilities, thus providing opportunities to increase seismic safety and reduce construction cost. Although past studies have characterized the...

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