A Study on the Nonlinear Analysis of Containment Building in Korea Standard Nuclear Power Plant

한국형 원전 격납건물의 비선형해석에 관한 연구

In this paper, a nonlinear finite element analysis program NUCAS, which has been developed for assessment of pressure capacity and failure mode for nuclear containment building is described. Degenerated shell element with assumed strain method and low-order solid element with enhanced assumed strain method is adapted to microscopic material and elasto-plastic material model, respectively. Finally, the performance of the developed program is tested and demonstrated with several examples. From the numerical tests, the present results show a good agreement with experimental data or other numerical results.