Wind/seismic comparisons for upgrading existing structures

Conference · Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5727822

Giller, R A ^[1]

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1. Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)

This paper depicts the analysis procedures and methods used to evaluate three existing building structures for extreme wind loads. The three structures involved in this evaluation are located at the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. This site is characterized by open flat grassland with few surrounding obstructions and has extreme winds in lieu of tornados as a design basis accident condition. This group of buildings represents a variety of construction types, including a concrete stack, a concrete load-bearing wall structure, and a rigid steel-frame building. The three structures included in this group have recently been evaluated for response to the design basis earthquake that included non-linear time history effects. The resulting loads and stresses from the wind analyses were compared to the loads and stresses resulting from seismic analyses. This approach eliminated the need to prepare additional capacity calculations that were already contained in the seismic evaluations. 4 refs., 5 figs., 5 tabs.

• Research Organization: Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/DP
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-87RL10930
• OSTI ID: 5727822
• Report Number(s): WHC-SA-0601; CONF-8910192-2; ON: DE89016055
• Resource Relation: Conference: Natural phenomena hazards mitigation conference, Knoxville, TN (USA), 3-5 Oct 1989
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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TORSION
ALLOYS
BUILDING MATERIALS
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DYNAMIC LOADS
INFORMATION
IRON ALLOYS
IRON BASE ALLOYS
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