Seismic fragility of threaded Tee-joint connections in piping systems

International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping

Volumn 132-133, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-118

  Ju, Bu Seog ^a   Gupta, Abhinav ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

First leakage piping fragility; Performance based piping fragility; Piping fragility; Piping limit states

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FIRST-LEAKAGE PIPING FRAGILITY; FLEXURAL DEFORMATIONS; LIMIT STATE; MONOTONIC AND CYCLIC LOADING; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; PERFORMANCE BASED; PIPING FRAGILITY; TIME HISTORY ANALYSIS;

PIPING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84937774550     PISSN: 03080161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpvp.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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