• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.449-455
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• 2011

Recently, international collaborative research which was organized at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in India, was conducted to develop for pressure capacity and nonlinear behavior of PHWR 1/4 scale nuclear containment building between experimental test and numerical code. In this paper, a nonlinear finite element analysis was carried out in order to predict ultimate pressure capacity and nonlinear behavior of the 1/4 scale containment building. The 1/4 scale containment building is consisted of basemat, cylinder wall, dome and 4-buttress. For the finite element analysis, commercial program ABAQUS was used. Finite element models including concrete, rebar and tendon have been developed for assessment of ultimate pressure capacity and failure mode for nuclear containment building. From the analysis results, first crack of the concrete, the yielding of the rebar and ultimate capacity pressure occurred at $1.6P_d$(design pressure), $3.36P_d$ and $4.0P_d$, respectively.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.715-722
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• 2011

In this paper, the behavior of nuclear-power plant subjected to an aircraft impact is performed using the parallel analysis. In the erstwhile study of an aircraft impact to the nuclear-power plant, it has been used that the impact load is applied at the local area by using the impact load-time history function of Riera, and the target structures have been restricted to the simple RC(Reinforced Concrete) walls or RC buildings. However, in this paper, the analysis of an aircraft impact is performed by using a real aircraft model similar to the Boeing 767 and a fictitious nuclear-power plant similar to the real structure, and an aircraft model is verified by comparing the generated history of the aircraft crash against the rigid target with another history by using the Riera's function which is allowable in the impact evaluation guide, NEI07-13(2009). Also, in general, it is required too much time for the hypervelocity impact analysis due to the contact problems between two or more adjacent physical bodies and the high nonlinearity causing dynamic large deformation, so there is a limitation with a single CPU alone to deal with these problems effectively. Therefore, in this paper, Message-Passing MIMD type of parallel analysis is performed by using self-constructed Linux-Cluster system to improve the computational efficiency, and in order to evaluate the parallel performance, the four cases of analysis, i.e. plain concrete, reinforced concrete, reinforced concrete with bonded containment liner plate, steel-plate concrete structure, are performed and discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.17 no.4 s.88
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• pp.527-533
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• 2005

Axisymmetric modeling of the nuclear containment building has been often employed in practice to estimate structural behavior for the axisymmetric loadings, where the axisymmetric approximation is required for the actual non-axisymmetric tendon arrangements in the dome. In the preceding companion paper, some procedures are proposed for the domestic CANDU and KSNP type containments that can implement the actual 3-dimensional tendon stiffness and prestressing effect into the axisymmetric model. In this paper, the proposed schemes are verified through some numerical examples comparing the results of the actual 3-dimensional model with those of some axisymmetric models. The results of the proposed axisymmetric analyses show relatively good agreements with the actual structural behavior especially for the CANDU type. Also, it is shown that proper level of the prestressing in a hoop direction plays an important role to predict the actual prestressing effect in the axisymmetric dome modeling. Finally, correction factors are discussed that can revise some approximations introduced in the derivations.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.17 no.4 s.88
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• pp.521-526
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• 2005

Prestressing tendons in a nuclear containment building dome are non-axisymmetrically arranged in most cases. However, simple axisymmetric modeling of the containment has been often employed in practice to estimate structural behavior for the axisymmetric loadings such as an internal pressure. In this case, the axisymmetric approximation is required for the actual tendon arrangements in the dome. Some procedures are proposed that can implement the actual 3-dimensional tendon stiffness and prestressing effect into the axisymmetric model. Prestressing tendons, which are arranged in 3 or 2-ways depending on a containment type, are converted into an equivalent layer to consider the stiffness contribution in meridional and hoop directions. In order to reflect the prestressing effect, equivalent load method and initial stress method are devised and the corresponding loads or stresses are derived in terms of the axisymmetric model. In a companion paper, the proposed schemes are applied into CANDU and KSNP(Korean Standard Nuclear Power Plant) type containments and are verified through some numerical examples comparing the analysis results with those of the actual 3-dimensional model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.323-324
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.304.2-304
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.457.2-457.2
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.370.1-370
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05a
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• pp.569-574
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• 1997

프랑스 가압경수형 원전인 울진 1,2호기 cavity의 격납용기 직접가열에 대한 특성을 분석하기 위하여 노심 용융물 고압분출 실험 연구를 수행하였다. 울진 1,2호기 격납건물은 국내의 Westinghouse와 CE형 원전과 달리 원자로용기 하부 cavity내 수평통로에 의한 출구가 없어 원자로용기 외곽의 환형통로를 통해 cavity와 격납건물 상부 대기와 직접 연결되어 있는 특성을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 환형통로 면적, 파손 직경 용융물 질량 등에 따라 원자로용기 압력을 변화시키면서 용융물을 물, 증기를 질소기체로 각각 모의하여 실험을 수행하였다. 실험결과, 노심용융물 고압분출에는 원자로용기 파손 직경이 많은 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났고 환형통로 면적과 용융물 질량은 큰영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 환형통로 면적의 감소는 노심용융물 고압분출시 cav의 압력을 다소 상승시키는 결과를 보여주었다. 본 실험 연구에서 노심용융물 고압분출에 많은 영향을 미치지 않는 것으로 나타난 환형통로 면적에 대해서는 종합적으로 분석하는 추가 실험 이 필요하다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.47-56
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• 2001

In order to assure the safety of NPP structures, margin of safety or conservatism is incorporated in each design step. Seismic risk evaluation of NPP structures is performed based on the realistic capacity and response of structure eliminated the safety margin and conservatism. In this study, the comparative study on the various evaluation methods of the inelastic energy absorption capacity was performed. The inelastic energy absorption capacity due to the nonlinear behavior of structures has significant effect on the results of seismic probabilistic risk assessment. And the comparison study of the HCLPF(high confidence of low probability of failure) values according to the inelastic energy absorption factors was performed. As a conclusion, the inelastic energy absorption factor of NPP containment structure is estimated about 1.5~1.75. It is essential to estimate the nonlinear behavior of structure and its ductility factor correctly for the seismic risk assessment.