Soil-structure interaction analysis of the Hualien containment model

✍ Scribed by Todor Ganev; Fumio Yamazaki; Tsuneo Katayama; Teruyuki Ueshima

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 943 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-7261
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-7261(97)00015-8

✦ Synopsis

This paper presents results from forced vibration tests, microtremor observations and earfllquake response analysis of a nuclear reactor containment model constructed on stiff soil in Hualien, Taiwan. The dynamic behavior of the soil-structure system is simulated successfully with two numerical models: a sway-rocking model, whose soil parameters are evaluated on the basis of the continuum formulation method, and a finit,: element model, using the program SASSI with the flexible volume substructuring approach. The dependences of the soil parameters of both models on the amplitudes of the different dynamic excitations are investigated in detail. An original numerical simulation of microtremor is performed. Comparison with results of a previous study involving a rigid tower on a soft soil site in Chiba, Japan is offered.