CARES. Seismic Structural Safety Evaluation
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)
CARES, Computer Analysis for Rapid Evaluation of Structures, was developed for NRC staff use to determine the validity and accuracy of the analysis methods used by various utilities for structural safety evaluations of nuclear power plants. CARES is organized in a modular format with the basic modules of the system performing static, seismic, and nonlinear analysis. In this release, only the seismic module is implemented. This module defines the design seismic criteria at a given site, evaluates the free-field motion, and computes the structural response and floor response spectra including soil-structure interaction. The eight options in CARES currently are: a general manager for the seismic module, deconvolution analysis, structural data preparation for soil-structure interaction (SSI) analysis, input motion preparation for SSI analysis, SSI analysis, earthquake simulations/data, PSD (Power Spectral Density) related acceleration time history/spectra analysis, and plot generation.
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
- OSTI ID:
- 139265
- Report Number(s):
- ESTSC/NRC-000012IBMPC00; NESC-1142
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: The source is not supplied as part of the package. CARES uses the proprietary Microcompatibles, Inc. GRAFMATICS graphics package which is not included. However, the necessary GRAFMATICS routines are provided as part of the executable CARES program.; PBD: 1 Jul 1990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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