• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.289-297
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• 2011

명시적 유한요소법은 비선형성이 많은 대형 문제를 푸는 데는 꼭 필요하지만 종종 그 결과의 해석에 있어서는 어려움이 수반된다. 특별한 경우, 가속도의 과도응답은 극심한 불연속, 과도한 노이즈 또는 앨리어싱이 발생하여 평가가 불가능할 때도 있다. 본 논문에서는 유한요소법의 명시적분에 의한 과도응답 및 응답스펙트럼의 새로운 후처리기법을 제안한다. 해석기에 의한 가속도 거동의 수치적인 에러를 제거하고 물리적인 가속도를 추출하기 위하여 가우스커널을 이용하는 평활화법을 제안하였다. 이 평활화는 신호처리 필터링 기법과 같이 복잡한 주파수에 대한 고려가 없이도 속도에 대한 결과와 응답스펙트럼을 참조함으로써 행해진다. 특히 가우스커널 평활화는 가속도의 피크 값을 잘 나타내면서도 평활도가 우수하였다. 제안된 평활화법에 의하여 부드러운 가속도는 물론 이를 이용하여 설계에서 필요한 층 응답스펙트럼을 구할 수 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.192-205
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• 2020

Seismic design practices and seismic response analyses of civil structures and nuclear power plants (NPPs) have conventionally used the peak ground acceleration (PGA) or spectral acceleration (S_a) as an intensity measure (IM) of an earthquake. However, there are many other earthquake IMs that were proposed by various researchers. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between seismic responses of NPP components and 23 earthquake IMs and identify the best IMs for correlating with damage of NPP structures. Particularly, low- and high-frequency ground motion records are separately accounted in correlation analyses. An advanced power reactor NPP in Korea, APR1400, is selected for numerical analyses where containment and auxiliary buildings are modeled using SAP2000. Floor displacements and accelerations are monitored for the non- and base-isolated NPP structures while shear deformations of the base isolator are additionally monitored for the base-isolated NPP. A series of Pearson's correlation coefficients are calculated to recognize the correlation between each of the 23 earthquake IMs and responses of NPP structures. The numerical results demonstrate that there is a significant difference in the correlation between earthquake IMs and seismic responses of non-isolated NPP structures considering low- and high-frequency ground motion groups. Meanwhile, a trivial discrepancy of the correlation is observed in the case of the base-isolated NPP subjected to the two groups of ground motions. Moreover, a selection of PGA or S_a for seismic response analyses of NPP structures in the high-frequency seismic regions may not be the best option. Additionally, a set of fragility curves are thereafter developed for the base-isolated NPP based on the shear deformation of lead rubber bearing (LRB) with respect to the strongly correlated IMs. The results reveal that the probability of damage to the structure is higher for low-frequency earthquakes compared with that of high-frequency ground motions.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.105-116
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• 2022

Seismic demand on nonstructural components (NSCs) is highly dependent on the coupled behavior of a combined supporting structure-NSC system. Because of the inherent complexities of the problem, many of the affecting factors are inevitably neglected or simplified based on engineering judgments in current seismic design codes. However, a systematic analysis of the key affecting factors should establish reasonable seismic design provisions for NSCs. In this study, an idealized 2-DOF model simulating the coupled structure-NSC system was constructed to analyze the parameters that affect the response of NSCs comprehensively. The analyses were conducted to evaluate the effects of structure-NSC mass ratio, structure, and NSC nonlinearities on the peak component acceleration. Also, the appropriateness of component ductility factor (R_p) given by current codes was discussed based on the required ductility capacity of NSCs. It was observed that the responses of NSCs on the coupled system were significantly affected by the mass ratio, resulting in lower accelerations than the floor spectrum-based response, which neglected the interaction effects. Also, the component amplification factor (a_p) in current provisions tended to underestimate the dynamic amplification of NSCs with a mass ratio of less than 15%. The nonlinearity of NSCs decreased the component responses. In some cases, the code-specified R_p caused nonlinear deformation far beyond the ductility capacity of NSCs, and a practically unacceptable level of ductility was required for short-period NSCs to achieve the assigned amount of response reduction.