Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
03 Jun 1993, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Abstract
Seismic qualification of large and complex mechanical systems is a tedious task in itself. It not only involves high computational cost, but also becomes cost ineffective in case repeated runs are required from safety considerations. Seismic analysis of one bank of Main PHT System of a typical Nuclear Power Plant has been attempted. Besides analysing the complete system, an attempt has also been made to divide the complete system into logical subsystems and analyse the same for the prescribed seismic loads. The results thus obtained have been compared with those of the complete system and a fairly good degree of agreement has been achieved. The subsystem approach has resulted in substantial reduction of the computational cost.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
3rd Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1993 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Singh, A. K. and Bhatia, K. G., "Seismic Qualification of Mechanical Systems" (1993). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 17.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/3icchge/3icchge-session03/17
Seismic Qualification of Mechanical Systems
St. Louis, Missouri
Seismic qualification of large and complex mechanical systems is a tedious task in itself. It not only involves high computational cost, but also becomes cost ineffective in case repeated runs are required from safety considerations. Seismic analysis of one bank of Main PHT System of a typical Nuclear Power Plant has been attempted. Besides analysing the complete system, an attempt has also been made to divide the complete system into logical subsystems and analyse the same for the prescribed seismic loads. The results thus obtained have been compared with those of the complete system and a fairly good degree of agreement has been achieved. The subsystem approach has resulted in substantial reduction of the computational cost.
