Aug 6, 2019
The benefits of seismically isolating nuclear power plant buildings, in terms of reducing seismic risk, are well established but the possible impacts on overnight capital cost are unknown. Projects funded by EPRI and ARPA-E are now underway to characterize possible...
Aug 5, 2019
This paper proposes enhancements to the equivalent linear approach of simulating the site soil response for the seismic soil-structure interaction analysis of structures in a nuclear power plant to better represent the physical behavior of soil. The equivalent linear...
Oct 24, 2018
A key step in the formulation and solution of the soil-structure interaction (SSI) problem is the calculation of the displacements of the soil without the presence of a structure, also known as free-field displacements. The free-field displacements are used as basis...
Oct 23, 2018
This presentation summarizes the methodology and results from a recent seismic evaluation of a safety-class fire water storage tank. Tanks such as this are common at both DOE and NRC regulated nuclear facilities and their safety function following earthquake is relied...
Oct 23, 2018
Review of existing literature on the topic of building pounding suggests that impact can not only result in potential structural damage, but can also result in large high frequency accelerations, that could cause malfunction of equipment installed within the...
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