seismic risk
Component Degradation Effect on Seismic Risk of NPP
... The seismic safety of existing NPPs can be improved easily by an increase of the seismic capacity of the dominant equipment or ...the seismic characteristics of the facilities and the seismic ...
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Consideration of safety margin of safety-related ssc for implementation of the defence in depth concept for seismic risk
... For that purpose, this paper proposes one possible framework to implement the defence in depth concept for seismic risk. Among the possible methodologies, this paper discusses a framework in terms of the ...
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Seismic risk management of non engineered buildings
... the seismic risk management action was evident during the massive earthquake o f 1938, which did not damage the city ...disaster risk management as a strategic and political ...disaster risk ...
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Seismic risk mapping for Germany
... and risk mitigation activities. Destructive seismic events are infrequent, ...past seismic history (Table 1) has manifested the serious threat from ...of seismic intensity is degree VI (which ...
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Sensitivity of Parameters Affecting Seismic Risk
... of seismic risk using either a closed-form solution method, or numerical ...include seismic ground response considering overlying soil strata, at any particular ...
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Development of Urban Seismic Risk Assessment System
... the risk of earthquake ...costly. Risk analysis using outdated existing information also affects the accuracy of ...the seismic risk of any area with great ...urban seismic risk ...
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THE INFLUENCE OF DESIGN BASIS AND BEYOND DESIGN BASIS SEISMIC ANALYSIS ON PLANT RISK USING A SIMPLIFIED SEISMIC RISK APPROACH
... The seismic risk from a given fault is therefore just the probability of plant failure under this fault condition, ܲሺλሻ ...total seismic risk is therefore the sum of these values over all ...
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Seismic Risk Analysis of Gas Buried Pipeline Network Subjected to Rayleigh Wave
... The utility lifelines, such as water, gas, electric power, communication systems and so on, are highly vulnerable during earthquake. Among them, buried pipelines were always severely damaged in every historical great ...
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Seismic Risk of Highway sub grade Soil
... of seismic risk in a transportation network is directly dependent on the fragility of the bridge inventory, the need for bridge classification becomes essential, in order to systematically produce fragility ...
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Seismic risk management: A system-based perspective
... objective risk assessment that is based on hazard analysis ...of risk management is to provide an effective and efficient risk assessment to support decisions and policy options (Smith et al ...of ...
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Seismic isolation of a nuclear structure: impacts on construction cost and seismic risk
... horizontal seismic demands in structures, systems and components (SSCs) in nuclear facilities, thus providing opportunities to increase seismic safety and reduce construction ...of seismic isolation ...
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Seismic Risk Assessment of Power Substations
... With growth of urbanization in recent decades, many Iranian cities have undergone fast, unbalanced and unplanned development. This has had negative effects on power network, as it was supposed to grow in the same ...
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Seismic risk: the biases of earthquake media coverage
... of seismic intensity and seismic ...the seismic risk that is built by the press emphasizes the immediate and overly destructive nature of the event, occulting the real timing of such ...
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An interdisciplinary perspective on social and physical determinants of seismic risk
... of seismic risk. The seismic hazard per- spective comprises two variables: seismic intensity and sur- face ...measure seismic intensity as it is apparently more representative than PGA ...
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Research on the Seismic Response of Residential Buildings Located in Areas of High Seismic Risk in Cuba
... Even when in Cuba, the frequency of devastating earthquake is relatively low compared to other Caribbean islands; the Santiago de Cuba city is exposed to high levels of seismic risk because of its tectonic ...
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Development of fragility curves for use in seismic risk targeting
... a risk-targeting approach, seismic risk is calculated by convolving the seismic hazard curve of a given location with a fragility curve for a code-designed structure (ideally derived from ...
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Modeling the Specific Seismic Risk Considering the Weight of Determining Variables
... The seismic risk determination for any country is a vital tool in the process of physical planning, construction and reduction of disasters caused by ...the seismic risk ...specific ...
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Assessment of Seismic Risk in Sweden – Pilot Study
... earthquake risk is dominated by near-field earthquake events and is characterized by high acceleration responses at high ...the seismic risk for Swedish nuclear plants and to find out whether there ...
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Updating Fuzzy Models for Seismic Risk Assessment
... An approach of type (iv) could be said to be purely fuzzy. Such a double fuzzy model for the seismic damage prediction is proposed in [14]. The approximation of pdf f by a[r] ...
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Derivation of Seismic Risk Estimates from Seismic Margin Assessments
... B) By extension: If a few important HCLPF capacities are found in the SMA to be less than the RLE screening level, then a pseudo-seismic CDF will produce a reasonable and u[r] ...
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