Integrating HPC Simulations and Physical Experiments to Characterize the Effects of Gamma Irradiation on Seismic Protective Devices
Seismic protective systems, composed of seismic isolators and dampers, can substantially reduce the effects of earthquake shaking on nuclear power plants and components therein. To enable the use of these devices to protect equipment inside a plant and close to a source of radiation, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded a project at the […]
Development, verification, and validation of comprehensive acoustic fluid-structure interaction capabilities in an open-source computational platform
The acoustic fluid-structure interaction (FSI) formulation is a practical numerical approach for the seismic analysis of fluid-filled tanks. However, there are no verification and validation studies reported in the literature that demonstrate the ability of an acoustic FSI numerical model to predict responses important to structural and mechanical design for intense translational and rotational earthquake […]