Seismic Design for Nuclear Installations

Intro -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Background -- Objective -- Scope -- Structure -- 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR SEISMIC DESIGN AND GENERAL SEISMIC DESIGN ASPECTS -- External hazards -- Engineering design rules -- Design extension conditions -- Heat transfer to an ultimate heat sink -- Control room -- Other seismic design aspects -- 3. INPUT FOR SEISMIC DESIGN -- General concepts of seismic design -- Design basis earthquake -- Required input from the site evaluation process -- Final site response analysis for the seismic hazard assessment -- Determination of the design basis earthquake -- Beyond design basis earthquake -- Seismic categorization for structures, systems and components -- Selection of seismic design and qualification standards -- 4. SEISMIC DESIGN OF STRUCTURES, SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS -- Layout of the installation -- Buildings and civil structures -- Engineered earth structures and buried structures -- Seismically isolated structures -- Mechanical equipment -- Storage tanks -- Piping -- Buried pipes -- Electrical equipment, control and instrumentation -- Cable trays and conduits -- Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning ducts -- Seismic capacity -- 5. SEISMIC ANALYSIS -- Site response analysis -- Structural response -- Dynamic soil-structure interaction -- Direct methods -- Substructuring methods -- Structure-soil-structure interaction -- Combination of earthquake loads with other loads -- 6. SEISMIC QUALIFICATION -- Qualification methods -- Qualification by analysis -- Qualification by testing -- Types of test and typical application fields -- Planning -- Qualification by a combination of analysis and testing -- Qualification by indirect methods -- 7. SEISMIC MARGIN TO BE ACHIEVED BY THE DESIGN -- Concept of seismic margin -- Adequate seismic margin -- Procedures to assess the seismic margin.