12th International Conference on 
Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology


 

DIVISION M: STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY AND PROBABILISTIC SAFETY ASSESSMENT (PSA)


(The papers with links are those received by the SMiRT 12 Secretariat at the time the Transactions went to press)


M06: Probabilistic Risk Assessment (1)

M06/1

Current German Investigations of Further Development of PSA for Nuclear Power Plants
Berg, H.P., Grötz, R., Herttrich, M., Schott, H.

M06/2 Probabilistic Fire Risk Analysis - A Tool for Decision Making on Plant Improvements
Hoffmann, H., Breiling, G., Berg, H.P.
M06/3 Probabilistic Evaluation of Ultimate Internal Pressure Capacity of a Prestressed Concrete Containment
Nam, H.T., Lee, L.H., Joe, Y.H., Park, H.G.
M06/4 Reliability Analysis of Water Intake Building for External Explosion
Heguiz, A.G., Bergmann, R., Riera, J.D.
M06/5 Use of Probabilistic Safety Analyses in Bringing the Kozloduy NPP up to the Required Standard
Ranguelova, V., Kalchev, B.
M06/6 On Some Types of Dependence in PSA of Nuclear Power Plants and Their Quantification
Vulpe, A., Carausu, A.

M07: Probabilistic Risk Assessment (2)

M07/1

A Concept for the Systematic Verification of a Fault Tree Analysis
Götz, K.

M07/2 A Proposal for an Approach to Systematic Precursor Evaluation
Skoff, G., Breiling, G., Berg, H.P.
M07/3 Some Important Issues in Evaluating the Availability of Passive Systems
Kafka, P., Kelemen, I., Krzykacz, B.
M07/4 Response of Structures to Energetic Events for the Savannah River Site Production Reactors Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Santa Cruz, S.M., Smith, D.C., Yau, W.F.
M07/5 EPRI Root Cause Advisory Workstation "ERCAWS"
Singh, A., Chiu, C., Hackman, R.

M08: Probabilistic Based Criteria

M08/1

Research on Probabilistic Safety Goals at JAERI
Abe, K., Sugiura, N.

M08/2 Probabilistic Based MHTGR Core Graphite Structural Criteria
Ho, F.H.
M08/3 Normalized Failure Cost as a Measure for Importance of Structure
Kanda, J.
M08/4 Risk Impact of Removal of the Operating Basis Earthquake from Design of Future Nuclear Power Plants
Ravindra, M.K., Kenneally, R., Chokshi, N.C., Witte, M.
M08/5 Technical and Human Factors Lessons from Seven Major Accidents
Zebroski, E.L.

M12: Reliability Methods

M12/1

Role of In-Service Inspection and Maintenance in Reliability Assurance of Concrete Structures in Nuclear Power Plants
Ellingwood, B.R.., Mori, Y.

M12/2 A Rational Evaluation of Structural Design Loads
Tasaka, S.
M12/3 Simple Procedure to Evaluate Probability of Structure
Ugata, T., Moriyama, K.
M12/4 Reliability Analysis of Prestressed Concrete Containment Structures
Jiang, J., Zhao, Y., Sun, J.
M12/5 On Efficient Computational Procedures to Assess Structural Reliability
Schuëller, G.I.
M12/6 Time-Variant Reliability of Mechanical Components
Altes, J., Rackwitz, R., Schulz, U.

M14: Reliability - Case Studies

M14/1 Reliability Based Requalification of Existing Power Plants
Zuccarelli, F., Diamantidis, D., Manfredini, G.M., Vardanega, C.
M14/2 Probabilistic Safety Verification for the Overturning of a Service Water Pump House Against "Over Pressure Wave"
Bergman, R., Garcia Heguiz, A., Riera, J.
M14/3 Computerized Approach for Sensitivity Analysis Modelling for Evaluation of the Safety of Reactor Projects
Eldukair, Z.A.
M14/4 Reliability Analysis of Key System In HTR
Zhensheng, Z.
M14/5 Modification and Reconstruction of Some Safety Critical Systems for NPP "Kozloduy"
Ranguelova, V., Kalchev, B.

MG09: Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics - Pressure Vessels

MG09/1 Probabilistic Analysis of Thermal Fatigue Phenomenon in FBR Based Upon Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics
Tanaka, H., Tsurui, A.
MG09/2 Application of Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics to the Risk Assessment of Pressure Vessels
Tsai, C.-H., Wu, W.-F.
MG09/3 Analysis of Fracture Toughness Data for Pressurised Water Reactor Pressure Vessels Obtained in the Ductile to Brittle Transition Region
Moskovic, R.

MG10: Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics - Piping

MG10/1 Thermal Fatigue Crack Growth in Austenitic Steel Plates: - Measurement and Prediction
Green, D., Munz, D.
MG10/2 Sensitivity of and Influences on the Reliability of an HTR-Module Primary Circuit Pressure Boundary
Staat, M.
MG10/3 Structural Analysis of the Pressure Retaining Parts of a Nuclear Power Plant Mechanism
Sanzi, H.C.
MG10/4 Methods and Results of Probabilistic Analysis of Leaks and Breaks of NPP Equipment Elements
Tutnov, A.A., Ulyanov, A.I., Loskutov, O.D.

MG11: Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics - Methods

MG11/1 Life Extension Simulation of Aged RPV Material Using Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics on Massively Parallel Computer
Yoshimura, S., Zhang, M.-Y., Yagawa, G.
MG11/2 A Structural Reliability-Based Nondestructive Inspection Guideline
Wu, W.-F., Syau, J.-J.
MG11/3 Direct Analysis Method of Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics: Part 2
Akiba, H., Tatewaki, I.
MG11/4 A Markov Chain Model for the Surface Fatigue Crack and Its Application to Repair Engineering
Wang, D.Y.
MG11/5 Application of a Few Orthogonal Polynomials to the Assessment of the Fracture Failure Probability of a Spherical Tank
Cao, T., Zegong, Z.

MK01: Seismic Hazard

MK01/1 Revision of Siting Regulations, Including Earthquake Engineering, Seismic and Geologic Considerations
Murphy, A.J., Chokshi, N.C., Kenneally, R.M., McMullen, R.B.
MK01/2 Consideration of the Stochastic Dislocation Process in the Geophysical Ground Motion Model
Suzuki, S.
MK01/3 Spectrum Compatible Nonstationary Stochastic Earthquake Model
Iyengar, R.N.
MK01/4 Seismic Hazard ANalysis of the NPP Kozloduy Site
Petrovski, D., Stamatovska, S., Arsovski, M., Hadzievski, D., Sokerova, D., Solakov, D., Vaptzarov, I., Satchanski, S.
MK01/5 Development and Use of Generic Site Correction Factors for Seismic Hazard Analysis of U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Sites
Chen, J.C., Ueng, T.S., Bernreuter, D.L., Savy, J.B.

MK02: Probabilistic Seismic Response (1)

MK02/1 Modeling of Seismic Hazards for Dynamic Reliability Analysis
Mizutani, M., Fukushima, S., Akao, Y., Katukura, H.
MK02/2 A Study on the Variation of the Structural Response Based on Observed Earthquake Records
Matsubara, M., Takeda, M., Kai, Y.
MK02/3 Stochastic Seismic Response Analysis of Soft Soil Sites
Pires, J.A.
MK02/4 Post-Liquefaction Soil-Structure Interaction for Buried Structures: Sensitivity Analysis Studies
Pires, J.A., Ang, H.S., Katayama, I., Satoh, M.

MK03: Probabilistic Seismic Response (2)

MK03/1 Energy-Based Dynamic Reliability Analysis
Fukushima, S., Mizutani, M., Akao, Y., Katukura, H.
MK03/2 Dynamic Characteristics of Welded Structure
Aoki, S.
MK03/3 Probabilistic Response Analysis of Structures with Liquid Column Dampers
Pires, J.A., Won, A.Y., Haroun, M.A.
MK03/4 Evaluation of Floor Response Spectra Sets with Various Reliability Levels
Ambriashvily, Yu. C., Tyapin, A.G.

MK04: Seismic Fragility Estimation

MK04/1 Evaluation of Component Fragility in Isolated Structure
Hirata, K., Yamamoto, A., Ishida, K.
MK04/2 Seismic Risk Analysis of Non-Linear MDOF Structures
Inoue, T., Kanda, J.
MK04/3 The Seismic Reliability Study of VVER-1000 NPP Prestressed Containment Building
Varpasuo, P.
MK04/4 A Fuzzy Set Approach for Seismic Risk Assessment
Sundararajan, C.R.
MK04/5 Fragility Estimation for Seismically Isolated Nuclear Structures by HCLPF Values and Bi-Linear Regression
Carausu, A., Vulpe, A.

MK05: Seismic PRA & Reliability Analyses

MK05/1 The Use of the Uniform Risk Spectra in the Seismic PSA for a PWR Power Station
Llambias, J.M.
MK05/2 Scram Reliability Under Seismic Conditions at the Experimental Breeder Reactor II
Roglans, J., Wang, C.Y., Hill, D.J.
MK05/3 Seismic Probabilistic Safety Analysis of Loviisa NPP Unit I
Varpasuo, P., Puttonen, J., Ravindra, M.K.
MK05/4 Advanced Test Reactor Seismic Risk Analysis Including Relay Chatter
Ravindra, M.K., Campbell, R.D., Khericha, S.T., Calley, M.B.
MK05/5 Seismic Reliability of Electric Power Transmission Systems
Pires, A. H.-S., J., Villaverde, R.


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