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SC Solutions Partners to Integrate Seismic Protection Systems for Simplifying Nuclear Power Plants

Jun 4, 2018 | Structural Engineering

SC Solutions is a collaborating partner on a research and technology development team led by the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) on a project for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) titled Reducing Overnight Capital Cost of Advanced Reactors Using...

Integrated Seismic Soil-Structure-Interaction and Detailed Structural Analysis for Retrofit Strategy Planning of a Gravity-Based Offshore Platform with Isolated Box Girder Deck

Apr 19, 2018

An offshore Gravity Based Structure (GBS) and the underlying seabed soil layers were analyzed to evaluate the seismic retrofit strategy to extend the platform’s useful life and increase its production capacity. The GBS is a steel structure consisting of a box shape...

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...

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...

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