Seismic response and fragility evaluation for an Eastern US NPP including soil-structure interaction effects

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 197-214

  Ghiocel, Dan M ^a,b   Wilson, Paul R ^a   Thomas, Gary G ^a   Stevenson, John D ^a  

^a Stevenson and Associates   (United States)

^b STI Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Fragility; Nuclear facilities; Probabilistic spectra; Risk assessment; Seismic analysis; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY; SAFETY FACTOR; SEISMOLOGY; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

NUCLEAR FACILITIES; SEISMIC PROBABILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL FRAGILITY; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032313195     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(98)00020-9     Document Type: Article

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