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
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