IDENTIFICATION OF FREE-FIELD SOIL PROPERTIES USING NUPEC RECORDED GROUND MOTIONS.

Conference · Thu Mar 22 04:00:00 EST 2001

OSTI ID:779780

Xu, J ^[1]; Costantino, C; Hofmayer, C; Murphy, A; Chokshi, N; Kitada, Y

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1. BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

Over the past twenty years, the Nuclear Power Engineering Corporation (NUPEC) of Japan has conducted a series of field model test programs to investigate various aspects of soil-structure interaction (SSI) effects on nuclear power plant structures, including embedment and dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction (SSSI) effects. As part of a collaborative agreement between the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and NUPEC, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) performed a numerical analysis to predict the free field soil profile using industry standard methods and the recorded free field responses to actual earthquake events. This paper describes the BNL free-field analyses, including the methods and the analysis results and their comparison to recorded data in the free field. The free-field soil profiles determined from the BNL analyses are being used for both the embedment and SSSI studies, the results of which will be made available upon their completion.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: NRC: RES/DET/ERAB (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 779780
• Report Number(s): BNL--NUREG-68192; 401001060; 401001060
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
EARTHQUAKES
GROUND MOTION
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
SOIL MECHANICS
SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS