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IWGGCR--22: Seismic behaviour of gas cooled reactor components.

Seismic behaviour of gas cooled reactor components. Proceedings of a specialists' meeting held in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 14-16 November 1989

International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). International Working Group on Gas-Cooled Reactors, IWGGCR--22

Abstract

On invitation of the French Government the Specialists' Meeting on the Seismic Behaviour of Gas-Cooled Reactor Components was held at Gif-sur-Yvette, 14-16 November 1989. This was the second Specialists' Meeting on the general subject of gas-cooled reactor seismic design. There were 27 participants from France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, the CEC and IAEA took the opportunity to present and discuss a total of 16 papers reflecting the state of the art of gained experiences in the field of their seismic qualification approach, seismic analysis methods and of the capabilities of various facilities used to qualify components and verify analytical methods. Since the first meeting, the sophistication and expanded capabilities of both the seismic analytical methods and the test facilities are apparent. The two main methods for seismic analysis, the impedance method and the finite element method, have been computer-programmed in several countries with the capability of each of the codes dependent on the computer capability. The correlations between calculation and tests are dependent on input assumptions such as boundary conditions, soil parameters and various interactions between the soil, the buildings and the contained equipment. The ability to adjust these parameters and match experimental results with calculations was displayed in several of the papers. The expanded capability of some of the new test facilities was graphically displayed by the description of the SAMSON vibration test facility at Juelich, FRG, capable of dynamically testing specimens weighing up to 25 tonnes, and the TAMARIS facility at the CEA laboratories in Gif-sur-Yvette where the largest table is capable of testing specimens weighing up to 100 tonnes. The proceedings of this meeting contain all 16 presented papers.

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Articles

Methods for seismic analysis of nuclear power plants
Gantenbein, F. (CEA Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France). Dept. d'Etudes Mecaniques et Thermiques)

Earthquake analysis with nonlinear soil-structure interaction and nonlinear supports of components.
Hansson, V. (Strabag Bau-AG, Koeln (Germany, F.R.))

Contribution of earthquakes to the risk of a HTR-100 plant.
Altes, J. (Kernforschungsanlage Juelich GmbH (Germany, F.R.). Inst. fuer Nukleare Sicherheitsforschung)

Study on the seismic load against the HTTR building. Seismicity and wave propagation features of the HTTR site.
Suzuki, T. (Hazama-Gumi Ltd, Tokyo (Japan). Building Construction Div.); Yamagishi, Y. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Construction Div.); Tokita, K. (Tokyo Electric Power Services Company Ltd, Tokyo (Japan). Seismic Engineering Dept.)

Soil-structure interaction analysis of HTTR building by a simplified model.
Yagishita, F. (Tokyo Electric Power Services Company Ltd, Tokyo (Japan). Seismic Engineering Dept.); Suzuki, H.; Yamagishi, Y. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Construction Div.)

Soil-structure interaction analysis of HTTR building by a finite element model.
Yamagishi, Y.; Suzuki, H. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Construction Div.); Yagishita, F. (Tokyo Electric Power Services Company Ltd, Tokyo (Japan). Seismic Engineering Dept.)

Seismic design of the Heysham 2 advanced gas cooled reactor nuclear power station.
Allen, C.F. (Central Electricity Generating Board, Barnwood (UK). Generation Development and Construction Div.)

Seismic analysis of the modular high temperature gas cooled reactor
Tajirian, F.F.; Longstreth, M.; Appleford, A. (Bechtel National, Inc., San Francisco, CA (USA))

Seismic response analysis for HTTR core using the SONATINA-2V code.
Iyoku, T.; Shiozawa, S.; Nishiguchi, I.; Hayashi, K. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Dept. of HTTR Project); Watanabe, Y. (Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki (Japan). Nuclear Engineering Lab.); Tsuji, N. (Fuji Electric Company Ltd, Kawasaki (Japan). Engineering Dept.)

Seismic response of HTTR core bottom structures
yoku, T.; Inagaki, Y.; Nishiguchi, I. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Dept. of HTTR Project); Futakawa, M. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Dept. of High Temperature Engineering); Miki, T.; Jinza, K.; Tomizuka, T. (Fuji Electric Company Ltd, Kawasaki (Japan). Engineering Dept.)

Seismic scrammability of HTTR control rods.
Nishiguchi, I.; Iyoku, T.; Ito, N. (Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokai, Ibaraki (Japan). Dept. of HTTR Project); Watanabe, Y. (Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki (Japan). Nuclear Engineering Lab.); Araki, T. (Toshiba Corp., Yokohama (Japan). Nuclear Energy Group); Katagiri, S. (Toshiba Corp., Yokohoma (Japan). Keihin Product Operations)

Assessing seismic effects in gas cooled reactor building and pipeline design.
Chikunova, T.N. (All-Union Project and Research Inst. of Complex Power Technology, Leningrad (USSR))

Seismic stability of VGM type high temperature gas cooled reactors.
Zhukov, V.V.; Kaidalov, V.B.; Kiryushin, A.I.; Silaev, V.M. (Experimental Machine Building Design Bureau, Gorki (USSR))

Dynamic testing and qualification.
Kleine Tebbe, A.; Schmidt, G.; Theymann, W. (Hochtemperatur-Reaktorbau GmbH, Juelich (Germany, F.R.))

Investigation of dynamic response of HTR core and comparison with shaking table-tests
Anderheggen, E.; Prater, E.G.; Kreis, A. (Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Zurich (Switzerland))

Heysham II/Torness power stations: Seismic qualification of core structures and boilers
Shepherd, D.J. (National Nuclear Corp. Ltd., Knutsford (UK))