Memorias de investigación
Ponencias en congresos:
Experience and Lessons Learnt from the SMART 2013 Benchmark
Año:2015
Áreas de investigación
  • Ingenieria civil
Datos
Descripción
The French CEA, together with EDF and the IAEA, recently organised an international benchmark to evaluate the ability to model the mechanical behaviour of a typical nuclear reinforced concrete structure subjected to seismic demands. The participants were provided with descriptions of the structure and the testing campaign; they had to propose the numerical model and the material laws for the concrete (stage #1). A mesh of beam and shell elements was generated; for modelling the concrete a damaged plasticity model was used, but a smeared crack model was also investigated. Some of the initial experimental results, with the mock-up remaining in the elastic range, were provided to the participants for calibrating their models (stage #2). Predictions had to be produced in terms of eigen-frequencies and motion time histories. The calculated frequencies reproduced reasonably the experimental ones; the time histories, calculated by modal response analysis, also reproduced adequately the observed amplifications. The participants were then expected to predict the structural response under strong ground motions (stage #3), which increased progressively up to a history recorded during the 1994 Northridge earthquake, followed by an aftershock. These results were produced using an explicit solver and a damaged plasticity model for the concrete, although an implicit solver with a smeared crack model was also investigated. The paper presents the conclusions of the pre-test exercise, as well as some observations from additional simulations conducted after the experimental results were made available.
Internacional
Si
Nombre congreso
SIMULIA Community Conference, Berlín, Alemania
Tipo de participación
960
Lugar del congreso
Berlín
Revisores
Si
ISBN o ISSN
CDP08UPM
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso
19/05/2015
Fecha fin congreso
21/05/2015
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Título de las actas
SIMULIA Community Conference, Berlín, Alemania
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Ingeniería de Georrecursos y Modelización
  • Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Mecánica Computacional
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Geológica y Minera
  • Centro o Instituto I+D+i: CENTRO INVEST. MATERIALES ESTRUCTURALES (CIME)
  • Departamento: Mecánica de Medios Continuos y Teoría de Estructuras