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Country-wide Evaluation of Spent Fuel Storage Casks using a Phased Approach for Nonlinear Seismic Analysis

Jul 18, 2023

Because spent nuclear fuel (SNF) will be stored at interim spent fuel storage facility installations (ISFSI) for an extended period of time, there is an unreviewed condition related to the behavior of the SNF within these dry storage systems during earthquakes. Thus,...

SC Solutions Engineers Presented at SMiRT 26

Jul 28, 2022 | Structural Engineering

SC Solutions, together with other nuclear industry leaders and engineers from around the world joined together at the 26th SMiRT conference, held in Berlin/Potsdam, Germany from July 10 – 15, 2022. There, SC Solutions engineers contributed to new ideas for...

Seismic Evaluation of Water Storage Tanks Considering Soil-Structure-Fluid Interaction Effects

Jul 26, 2022

This paper presents the framework for a performance-based seismic assessment of coupled soil-structure-fluid systems via integrated 3D finite element (FE) analysis. The proposed strain-based performance approach reduces the conservatism and uncertainty associated with...

Modeling of Vertical Component Ground Motion for Soil-Structure-Interaction Analyses

Jul 26, 2022

The standard assumption of modelling the vertical component by vertically propagating P waves underestimates the spatial variability of the vertical ground motion over the dimension of the foundation of large structures, which can lead to very large vertical floor...

Simulation of Soil Structure Interaction Supporting Seismic Shake Table Tests of a Full-Scale Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Jul 26, 2022

Introduction Currently, spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is stored in onsite independent spent fuel storage installations (ISFSIs), which are dry storage facilities, at 55 nuclear power plant sites. Because the SNF will be stored at ISFSIs for an extended period of time,...

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