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http://dx.doi.org/10.7734/COSEIK.2020.33.2.129

Sampling-based Approach for Seismic Probabilistic Risk Assessment  

Kwag, Shinyoung (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Hanbat National University)
Eem, Seunghyun (School of Convergence and Fusion System Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Park, Junhee (Mechanical and Structural Safety Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
Choi, In-Kil (Mechanical and Structural Safety Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute)
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Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea / v.33, no.2, 2020 , pp. 129-136 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we develop a sampling-based seismic probabilistic risk assessment (SPRA) quantification technique that can accurately consider a partially dependent condition of component seismic fragility information. Specifically, the SPRA quantification method is proposed by combining the advantages of two representative methodologies: EPRI seismic fragility and JAERI seismic fragility input-based quantification. The most important feature of the proposed method is that it performs a SPRA using a sampling technique by transforming the EPRI seismic fragility input into JAERI seismic fragility input. When the proposed sampling-based approach was applied to an example of simple system and to a SPRA problem of a nuclear power plant, it was observed that the proposed method yields approximately similar system seismic fragility and seismic risk results as those of the exact solution. Therefore, it is believed that the approach proposed in this study can be used as a useful tool for accurately assessing seismic risks, considering the partial seismic dependence among the components; the existing SPRA method cannot handle such partial dependencies.
Keywords
system; seismic analysis; seismic performance; risk;
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