Maintenance of Prestressed Concrete Containment Vessels in a Nuclear Power Plant

Prestressed Concrete Piles

A state of the art presentation on prestressed piling as used throughout the world is discussed in this General Report to the FIP Symposium on Mass-Produced Prestressed Precast Elements in Madrid, Spain, May 1968. Historical information, design data and notes along with manufacturing techniques, installation practices, discussion of problems and failures and a complete bibliography are all cove...

Ductility of Prestressed and Partially Prestressed Concrete Beam Sections

D analyses of structures responding elastically to ground motions recorded during severe earthquakes have shown that the theoretical response inertia loads are generally significantly greater than the static design lateral loads recommended by codes. Hence, structures designed for the lateral earthquake loads recommended by codes can only survive severe earthquakes if they have sufficient ducti...

Bayesian analysis and decisions in nuclear power plant maintenance

It is somewhat true that in most mainstream statistical literature the transition from inference to a formal decision model is seldom explicitly considered. Since the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) revolution in Bayesian statistics, focus has generally been on the development of novel algorithmic methods to enable comprehensive inference in a variety of applications, or to tackle realistic pro...

Cracking of Prestressed Concrete Containments

Ductility Evaluation of Prestressed Concrete Members

In this paper, moment-curvature behavior and ductility of prestressed concrete members based on nonlinear analysis is investigated. Influence of various design parameters on ductility of flexural members is determined according to appropriate materials models for stress-strain curves of concrete, prestressing steel and conventional reinforcements. Parameters studied include reinforcing index (ω...