Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: 072325a8-02ea-4d59-bb3f-06592c340804
Document Type: srp
Title: The Aluminum Association, Specification for Aluminum Structures
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0520/ML052070327.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 3
Section ID: 3.4
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cal Earthquake Engineering and soil Dynamics, St. Louis, MO, March 11 through 15, 1991; (4) C. Y. Chang et al., "Analysis of Dynamic lateral Soil Pressures Recorded on Lotung Reactor Containment Model Structure," Proceedings of the 4th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Palm Springs, CA, May 20 through 24, 1990; and (5) C. Soydemir, "Seismic Design of Rigid Underground Walls in New England," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, St. Louis, MO, March 11 through 15, 1991. In November 1992, the U.S. Army Corps of 3.8.4-51 DRAFT Rev. 2 - April 1996 Engineers, acting as a consultant for the U.S. Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, published a comprehensive technical report (with about 30 sample problems and solutions) on the seismic design of waterfront retaining structures (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Technical Report ITL-92-11, "The Seismic Design of Waterfront Retaining Structures," Vicksburg, MS, November 1992). This report (prepared with input from a team of experts in the United States and Canada) summarizes the procedures recommended for computing dynamic lateral soil pressures and grouping them according to the expected displacement of the backfill and wall during seismic events. The Department of Energy is currently engaged n research and development work related to the area of dynamic lateral soil pressures. This brief summary of work done in the area of lateral pressures is not, by any means, complete; however, it gives a good indication of the apparently large uncertainties that appear to be unresolved in this area. Bechtel Power Corporation, a consultant for General Electric for the ABWR standardized design of seismic Category I structures, has calculated the dynamic lateral soil pressures on retaining walls and embedded exterior walls of structures, using the M-O method mentioned previously. In a section of Bechtel's proprietary report (Bechtel Power