• Title of article

    Gasleakageratethroughreinforcedconcreteshearwalls:NumericalstudyOriginalResearchArticle

  • Author/Authors

    TingWang، نويسنده , , TaraC.Hutchinson، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2005
  • Pages
    15
  • From page
    2246
  • To page
    2260
  • Abstract
    Unlinedreinforcedconcreteshearwallsareoftenusedas‘tertiaryboundaries’intheUnitedStatesDepartmentofEnergy(DOE)tohousedangerousgases.Anunanticipatedevent,suchasanearthquake,maycausegasesstoredinsidethewallstodisperseintotheenvironmentresultinginexcesspollution.Toaddressthisconcern,inthispaper,amethodologytonumericallypredictthegasleakageratethroughtheseshearwallsunderlateralloadingconditionsisproposed.Thismethodologyinvolvesfiniteelementandflowrateanalysis.Straindistributionsareobtainedfromthefiniteelementanalysis,andthenusedtosimulatethecrackcharacteristicsontheconcretespecimen.Theflowratethroughthedamagedconcretespecimenisthenestimatedusingflowrateformulasavailablefromtheliterature.Resultsfromanexperimentalspecimenareusedtoevaluatethemethodology,andparticularlyitsrobustnessintheflowrateestimation.
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Serial Year
    2005
  • Journal title
    Nuclear Engineering and Design Eslah
  • Record number

    895941