SC Solutions Engineers Highlight Recent Work at SMiRT 25

Aug 9, 2019 | Structural Engineering

SC Solutions had strong participation at the 25th SMiRT conference, held in Charlotte, NC from August 4 – 9, 2019.  Together with other nuclear industry leaders and engineers from around the world, SC Solutions engineers are contributing to new ideas for Structural...

Consideration of Non-Uniform Embedment on the Response of Nuclear Plant Structures

Aug 8, 2019

The effects of foundation embedment on the seismic response of structures have long been recognized in the analysis and design of nuclear power plant (NPP) structures. Some design standards allow simple methods to address the embedment effects. However, these methods...

Application of Seismic Ground Motion Incoherency Effects in SASSI on Soil Sites with Multiple Foundations

Aug 8, 2019

Inclusion of incoherency effects in soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis provides a more realistic determination of earthquake induced building structural responses than those obtained considering coherent ground motion. Separately, industry demand for...

A Case Study on the Structural Analysis and Fragility Calculation Due to Seismic Impact Between Adjacent Structures

Aug 8, 2019

In this study, the seismic impact between two adjacent structures with different lateral stiffness is investigated through a computational model. The method used for the impact analysis in this study is based on the Hertz contact law combined with a non-linear damper...

Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction Effects: A Case Study Comparing Two Approaches

Aug 7, 2019

The seismic SSSI effects in the nuclear island buildings for a representative plant are considered. The nuclear island consists of four buildings. The seismic SSSI effects on the lightest and smallest building (building of interest) are analyzed with two different...