Multidimensional Seismic Response Analysis of Large-Scale Steel-Reinforced Concrete Frame-Bent Structures in CAP1400 Nuclear Power Plant

Abstract

Irregularity in the plane layout of a building structure and the vertical discontinuity of lateral resistance components could lead to torsion and result in the brittle failure of a structure. According to the characteristics of the conventional island main building of nuclear power plants, this paper focuses on the conventional island main building of the CAP1400 nuclear power plant (NPP) in Shidaowan as the research object. A prototype structure model of the main building was developed using ABAQUS software. The seismic response of the structure under multidimensional ground motion was studied by inputting the X-direction and Y-direction translational and torsional components of ground motion in ABAQUS. The results demonstrate that the overall transverse displacement of the structure under bidirectional ground motion was significantly higher than that under unidirectional earthquakes, which was about 20%. Under a multidimensional frequent earthquake, the transverse displacement of the structure increased by about 13% on average compared with that under a bidirectional earthquake; the longitudinal increase was the largest, at about 28%. Finally, the lateral displacement of each layer of the steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) frame-bent main building structure with few walls proposed in this article decreased by an average of about 17% compared to the traditional SRC frame-bent main building structure. The longitudinal displacement was reduced by about 14% compared to the traditional SRC frame-bent main building structure.