Earthquake response of a multiblock nuclear reactor graphite core: experimental model vs simulations
- Submitting institution
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University of Greenwich
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 24918
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1002/eqe.3100
- Title of journal
- Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
- Article number
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- First page
- 2601
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 13
- ISSN
- 0098-8847
- Open access status
- Technical exception
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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8
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This work was part of the Plant Lifetime Extension project, funded by EDF Energy, focusing on multi-block rocking problems happening in graphite reactor cores during earthquakes. Results from highly complex numerical analysis were used alongside simplified kinematic models to interpret the experimental records of a physical model. The number of interacting components in the experiment and numerical simulation is unique in the literature. The results demonstrated that the behaviour is consistently predictable and helped building confidence in the numerical tools used by Atkins Nuclear and EDF-Energy for updated earthquake risk assessments (https://www.ice.org.uk/ICEDevelopmentWebPortal/media/Documents/Regions/UK%20Regions/Bristol-Uni.pdf).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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