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Wavelet analysis of soil-structure interaction effects on seismic responses of base-isolated nuclear power plants

  • Ali, Shafayat Bin (Institute of Earthquake Engineering Research (IEER), Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology) ;
  • Kim, Dookie (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University)
  • Received : 2016.07.21
  • Accepted : 2018.01.16
  • Published : 2017.12.25
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Abstract

Seismic base isolation has been accepted as one of the most popular design procedures to protect important structures against earthquakes. However, due to lack of information and experimental data the application of base isolation is quite limited to nuclear power plant (NPP) industry. Moreover, the effects of inelastic behavior of soil beneath base-isolated NPP have raised questions to the effectiveness of isolation device. This study applies the wavelet analysis to investigate the effects of soil-structure interaction (SSI) on the seismic response of a base-isolated NPP structure. To evaluate the SSI effects, the NPP structure is modelled as a lumped mass stick model and combined with a soil model using the concept of cone models. The lead rubber bearing (LRB) base isolator is used to adopt the base isolation system. The shear wave velocity of soil is varied to reflect the real rock site conditions of structure. The comparison between seismic performance of isolated structure and non-isolated structure has drawn. The results show that the wavelet analysis proves to be an efficient tool to evaluate the SSI effects on the seismic response of base-isolated structure and the seismic performance of base-isolated NPP is not sensitive to the effects in this case.

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Supported by : Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP)

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