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Containment Integrity Research at Sandia National Laboratories - An Overview (NUREG/CR-6906)On this page: Download complete document The following links on this page are to documents in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). See our Plugins, Viewers, and Other Tools page for more information. For successful viewing of PDF documents on our site please be sure to use the latest version of Adobe. Publication InformationManuscript Completed: March 2006 Prepared by 1 Sandia National Laboratories 2 David Evans and Associates, Inc. A. Sheikh, Program Manager Prepared for AbstractFor nearly thirty years, significant research has been performed at Sandia National Laboratories to improve the understanding of the response of nuclear power plant steel and concrete containment structures and their capacity to withstand accidents beyond their design basis and other extreme loads. This work has consisted of experimental programs and analytical studies to investigate the response and capacity of containment structures and components for a wide variety of loading conditions with a primary emphasis on internal overpressurization. This report summarizes the work that has been performed and the results of these efforts, and identifies common themes that have emerged. The most detailed information provided is of the research conducted at Sandia National Laboratories, sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. But effort is made to also highlight work conducted by other research organizations throughout the world to put the Sandia/NRC research into context and to attempt to summarize the current practice for evaluating containments subjected to accident loads. |
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