Short-term goals
Integrate current efforts in advancing the state-of-the-art in seismic analysis and create a unified seismic analysis methodology deployable through codes and standards
Advance seismic risk assessment methodologies to include more accurate seismic analysis tools and reduce uncertainties
Develop and deploy seismic risk mitigation technologies, such as seismic isolation (SI)
Long-term goals
Develop the capability to evaluate the performance of virtual nuclear power facilities for a wide range of external hazards including multiple event scenarios, thereby allowing owners to virtually test external hazards before the facilities are subjected to real external hazards, and identify and resolve potential issues
Research activities
Activities at the Seismic Research Group fall into four main areas:
Development of advanced methods of seismic analysis (e.g., NLSSI methodology), risk assessment and risk mitigation (e.g., base isolation)
Development of numerical tools that support the methods, including the integration of existing numerical codes and developing new codes as necessary
Gathering data from experiments and instrumented facilities to validate the methods and tools
Application of the verified and validated methods and tools to help owners of real facilities. Current activities of the seismic research group are listed below.
