Tornado missile simulation and design methodology. Volume 2: model verification and data base updates. Final report
A probabilistic methodology has been developed to predict the probabilities of tornado-propelled missiles impacting and damaging nuclear power plant structures. Mathematical models of each event in the tornado missile hazard have been developed and sequenced to form an integrated, time-history simulation methodology. The models are data based where feasible. The data include documented records of tornado occurrence, field observations of missile transport, results of wind tunnel experiments, and missile impact tests. Probabilistic Monte Carlo techniques are used to estimate the risk probabilities. The methodology has been encoded in the TORMIS computer code to facilitate numerical analysis and plant-specific tornado missile probability assessments.
- Research Organization:
- Research Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5906664
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-NP-2005-Vol.2; ON: DE82900362; TRN: 82-000564
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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