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SC Solutions’ Ben Kosbab Presents Plenary at ICAPP

Apr 9, 2018 | Uncategorized

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...

SC Solutions’ Phoebe Cheng Presents Performance Based Design with Nonlinear 3D Dynamic SSI and FSI Analysis at PBD-III Conference

Jul 19, 2017 | Uncategorized

Ms. Phoebe Cheng (Principal Engineer at SC Solutions) presented a case study on the seismic analysis and performance-based retrofit design of several large buried water storage reservoirs at the 3rd International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake...

Performance Based Design with 3D Dynamic SSI and FSI Analysis for Large Buried Water Storage Reservoirs

Jul 16, 2017

Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has four large, buried concrete reservoirs constructed between 2006 and 2013 and ranging in size from 5MG to 64MG (20 to 240 million litres). These reservoirs are essential for maintaining post-seismic event fire suppression and domestic...

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