Automatic identification of the worst load combination for structural safety assessment using an optimization approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 2287-2298 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tangaramvong ◽  
F. Tin-Loi
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Load Combination

scholarly journals Development and Validation of a Post-Earthquake Safety Assessment System for High-Rise Buildings Using Acceleration Measurements

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (15) ◽  
pp. 1758
Author(s):  
Koji Tsuchimoto ◽  
Yasutaka Narazaki ◽  
Billie F. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Model Updating ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Shaking Table ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Steel Building ◽  
Earthquake Safety

After a major seismic event, structural safety inspections by qualified experts are required prior to reoccupying a building and resuming operation. Such manual inspections are generally performed by teams of two or more experts and are time consuming, labor intensive, subjective in nature, and potentially put the lives of the inspectors in danger. The authors reported previously on the system for a rapid post-earthquake safety assessment of buildings using sparse acceleration data. The proposed framework was demonstrated using simulation of a five-story steel building modeled with three-dimensional nonlinear analysis subjected to historical earthquakes. The results confirmed the potential of the proposed approach for rapid safety evaluation of buildings after seismic events. However, experimental validation on large-scale structures is required prior to field implementation. Moreover, an extension to the assessment of high-rise buildings, such as those commonly used for residences and offices in modern cities, is needed. To this end, a 1/3-scale 18-story experimental steel building tested on the shaking table at E-Defense in Japan is considered. The importance of online model updating of the linear building model used to calculate the Damage Sensitive Features (DSFs) during the operation is also discussed. Experimental results confirm the efficacy of the proposed approach for rapid post-earthquake safety evaluation for high-rise buildings. Finally, a cost-benefit analysis with respect to the number of sensors used is presented.

Structural Safety Assessment of a 1100 TEU Container Ship, Based on a Enhanced Long Term Fatigue Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 1036 ◽  
pp. 935-940
Author(s):  
Leonard Domnisoru ◽  
Ionica Rubanenco ◽  
Mihaela Amoraritei
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Irregular Waves ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Random Wave ◽  
Wave Loads ◽  
Strength Assessment ◽  
Integrated Method ◽  
Hydroelastic Response

This paper is focused on an enhanced integrated method for structural safety assessment of maritime ships under extreme random wave loads. In this study is considered an 1100 TEU container test ship, with speed range 0 to 18 knots. The most comprehensive criteria for ships structural safety evaluation over the whole exploitation life is based on the long term ship structures analysis, that includes: stress hot-spots evaluation by 3D/1D-FEM hull models, computation of short term ship dynamic response induced by irregular waves, long term fatigue structure assessment. The analysis is enhanced by taking into account the ships speed influence on hydroelastic response. The study includes a comparative analysis on two scenarios for the correlation between the ships speed and waves intensity. The standard constant ship speed scenario and CENTEC scenario, with total speed loss at extreme waves condition, are considered. Instead of 20 years ship exploitation life estimated by classification societies rules from the long term structural safety criteria, the enhanced method has predicted more restrictive values of 14.4-15.7 years. The numerical analyses are based on own software and user subroutines. The study made possible to have a more realistic approach of ships structural strength assessment, for elastic and faster ships as container carriers, in compare to the standard one based only on naval rules, delivering a method with higher confidence in the designed structural safety.

scholarly journals Structural safety assessment for FLNG-LNGC system during offloading operation scenario

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi-qiang Hu ◽  
Dong-wei Zhang ◽  
Dong-ya Zhao ◽  
Gang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Structural Safety

scholarly journals Multi-source data fusion method for structural safety assessment of water diversion structures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherong Zhang ◽  
Ting Liu ◽  
Chao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Data Fusion ◽  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Evidence Theory ◽  
Weighted Average ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Fusion Method ◽  
Bhattacharyya Distance ◽  
Source Data

Abstract Building safety assessment based on single sensor data has the problems of low reliability and high uncertainty. Therefore, this paper proposes a novel multi-source sensor data fusion method based on Improved Dempster–Shafer (D-S) evidence theory and Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN). Before data fusion, the improved self-support function is adopted to preprocess the original data. The process of data fusion is divided into three steps: Firstly, the feature of the same kind of sensor data is extracted by the adaptive weighted average method as the input source of BPNN. Then, BPNN is trained and its output is used as the basic probability assignment (BPA) of D-S evidence theory. Finally, Bhattacharyya Distance (BD) is introduced to improve D-S evidence theory from two aspects of evidence distance and conflict factors, and multi-source data fusion is realized by D-S synthesis rules. In practical application, a three-level information fusion framework of the data level, the feature level, and the decision level is proposed, and the safety status of buildings is evaluated by using multi-source sensor data. The results show that compared with the fusion result of the traditional D-S evidence theory, the algorithm improves the accuracy of the overall safety state assessment of the building and reduces the MSE from 0.18 to 0.01%.

CFD Analysis and Structural Safety Assessment of a Bypass Mitigation Device Used During a Ti-SGTR Accidental Release From a MSSV

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wung Jae Wang ◽  
Man Sung Yim
Keyword(s):  
Safety Assessment ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Safety Valve ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Simulation Software ◽  
Radioactive Material ◽  
Structural Safety ◽  
Fluid Temperature ◽  
Cfd Analysis ◽  
Temperature And Pressure

Abstract In Nuclear power plants, Main steam safety valve (MSSV) is a barrier to prevent overpressure of steam flow by opening the secondary cycle to the atmosphere. Since MSSVs operate at condition of high temperature and pressure, they have possibility for stuck-open failure. If this accident occurs, large amount of steam or gases release through failed MSSV. It may lead Thermally-induced Steam generator tube rupture (TI-SGTR) due to sudden high gradient of temperature and pressure. With loss of electrical power, TI-SGTR occurs, Core will start to melt in 2–3hours after loss of electrical power. When TI-SGTR occurs with core melt, Leakage of radioactive material occurs through MSSV to environment. Though the probability of an accident is very low, the release of radioactive material can lead large cancer risk to the public. Therefore, many studies to mitigate the radioactive materials are in progress such as diversion to containment building or capturing with external mitigation system. In this study, we are focusing on this capturing device. The objective of this study is to analyze integrity of mitigation device using fluid behavior from MSSV to capturing pipe. Hydraulic conditions at safety valve inlet were used from previous researches. Using commercial simulation software, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed for distribution of fluid temperature, pressure, velocity in MSSV and pipes. For structural safety assessment, 1-way Fluid-Structure interaction (FSI) method was used. CFD result was applied for load on structure surfaces to simulate transient structural analysis of mitigation device. As a result, stresses, strains of capturing pipe were calculated and integrity was discussed.

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