Seismic Isolation of Nuclear Power Plants

Dear Colleagues,

Seismic isolation is one of the most effective and applicable solutions for increasing the safety of a nuclear power plant against moderate and strong earthquakes.  While the performance of seismic isolation systems has been observed in real and simulated laboratory environments and has also already been applied to many conventional structures, application to nuclear power plants requires more research than conventional structures. Nuclear power plants should be designed and constructed using stringent seismic design criteria and should satisfy certain safety goals. Therefore, the application of seismic isolation system to NPPs needs additional considerations compared to the conventional structures.

This special issue will address major issues related to the application of the seismic isolation systems at nuclear power plants. The scopes of this special issue includes: (1) design criteria and regulation guidelines, (2) design of seismic isolation device for NPPs, (3) nonlinear behaviour prediction of seismic isolation system and seismic isolated NPPs, (4) ultimate capacity evaluation of seismic isolation devices, (5) performance test of seismic isolation devices, (6) behaviour of interface piping system, (7) seismic fragility assessment of seismic isolated structures and equipment, (8) seismic risk assessment of seismic isolated NPPs, (9) maintenance and monitoring system, etc.

Dr. Min Kyu Kim
Dr. Jung Han Kim
Prof. Dr. Gilberto Mosqueda
Guest Editors

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