As a partial response to post-Fukushima Near-Term Task Force (NTTF) Recommendation 2.1 from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), several operating nuclear power plants commissioned seismic probabilistic risk assessment (SPRA) studies to evaluate the impact of...
Arbitrary Lagrangian – Eulerian (ALE) methodology has been used in Fluid – Structure Interaction (FSI) analyses with LS-DYNA® for a variety of problems. Validation of ALE solutions by comparison with experimental data provides assurance that the solutions...
The seismic Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) analysis of nuclear facilities is usually performed in frequency domain where the response of the soil-structure system’s components is modeled as linear. The linear response assumption may be appropriate for small- to...
The safety related structures in nuclear power plants often need to be designed to withstand the effects of tornado generated missile impacts. The heaviest missile to consider is often an automobile which is a soft missile due to its large deformations during the...
Characterizing complex quantum systems is a vital task in quantum information science. Quantum tomography, the standard tool used for this purpose, uses a well-designed measurement record to reconstruct quantum states and processes. It is, however, notoriously...
