A key step in the formulation and solution of the soil-structure interaction (SSI) problem is the calculation of the displacements of the soil without the presence of a structure, also known as free-field displacements. The free-field displacements are used as basis...
This presentation summarizes the methodology and results from a recent seismic evaluation of a safety-class fire water storage tank. Tanks such as this are common at both DOE and NRC regulated nuclear facilities and their safety function following earthquake is relied...
Review of existing literature on the topic of building pounding suggests that impact can not only result in potential structural damage, but can also result in large high frequency accelerations, that could cause malfunction of equipment installed within the...
In this talk, Dr. Ebert describes a set of applications where SC used COMSOL Multiphysics® for modeling. These models span the transport of heat, fluids and chemical species, structural mechanics, and electrochemistry. In each case, the models were either validated...
Recent studies have demonstrated that the capital cost of new nuclear is not dominated by the Nuclear Steam Supply System (NSSS) and balance-of-plant (BOP) technologies, but rather by the indirect costs, i.e. how the plants are built (including labor costs),...
