The testing of a 1:6-scale reinforced-concrete containment building

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6555244

Horschel, D S

A 1:6-scale LWR containment building made of reinforced concrete will be pressurized to failure in early 1987 at Sandia National Laboratories. This paper describes features of the containment and preparations and plans for testing. Over 1200 transducers will record the response of the containment as it is quasistatically pressurized to failure. The results from the test will be used to qualify analytical methods that can in turn predict the behavior of full scale containments subject to hypothesized loadings. This testing is being conducted as a part of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's severe accident research for nuclear power plants.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6555244
• Report Number(s): SAND-86-2863C; CONF-870415-2; ON: DE87008966
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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