DEVELOPMENT AND BASIC STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS OF SEISMIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS METHOD USING A HIGH-FIDELITY MODEL FOR LARGE-SCALE REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES

Abstract

In the seismic response analysis using high-fidelity models of large-scale reinforced concrete structures, such as nuclear power plant buildings, the application of high-performance computing is indispensable owing to the number of the degrees of freedom. This study shows the development of a seismic response analysis method for large-scale RC structures with FEM utilizing HPC. We applied the developed method to a seismic response analysis of a nuclear power plant building with surrounding ground, which is approximately 1.5 million DOF problem. This paper shows the results and discusses the analysis performance and effectiveness of the method.