Equipment used at nuclear power plants requires robust and reliable designs because in case of disaster, such as earthquake, small damage can turn into an unpredictable result. Control panel assembly structure used at nuclear power plants is important because of such reason. Seismic technology can be roughly categorized into analysis and experiment. The ideal way is testing the final product bu...

Batubesi Dam which is located in Sorowako region in the middle part of Sulawesi island had been designed with seismic coefficient about 0.20g. The region constitutes an active earthquake zone with the recurrence frequency and magnitude of the earthquake are relatively high. The region is located on and active fault zone due to lateral fault movement (strike-slip) of Matano fault, Palukoro fault...

The seismic safety assessment of large concrete dams remains a significant challenge in dam engineering, as it requires appropriate analysis methods, modern performance criteria, and advanced numerical models to simulate the behavior. This paper presents method for arch based on Endurance Time Analysis (ETA), using tensile compressive damage results from robust formulation considering joint ope...

Dams are very important in Ghanas economic development and environmental improvement. Although Ghana dams seismically far from the active zone, accurately analysed should be evaluated since failure could severely impact people flood environment regions economy on a large scale. This paper proposes numerical procedure for static, slope stability, dynamic analysis of Akosombo embankment dam. Nine...

To assure seismic isolation performance against design and beyond basis earthquakes in the nuclear facility components, lead inserted small-sized laminated rubber bearings (LRB), which has a 10 kN vertical load, have been designed quasi-statically tested to validate their mechanical properties previous studies. Following this study, shaking tests of these full-scale LRBs are performed discussed...

Significant progress has been made with the move to outcome-based education (OBE) in medicine and learning outcomes are on today's agenda. Learning outcomes have been specified in a number of areas and frameworks or models for communicating and presenting learning outcomes have been described. OBE has, however, two requirements. The first is to make the learning outcomes explicit and the second...

In this paper, a seismic hazard assessment (SHA) of the Shigo Kas hydropower project has been performed by deterministic and probabilistic approaches. The previously developed MATLAB-based code used for SHA, incorporating local site effects through deep soil analysis. On other hand, CRISIS 2007 diffuse areal source zones. latest updated earthquake instrumental historical catalogs have developed...

Large dams, especially concrete dams, have been designed against earthquakes since the construction of Hoover dam in the 1930s. The design criteria and methods of analysis used in those times are outdated today and the actual seismic safety of these structures is not known in view of today’s requirements. Earthquake action was usually taken into account pseudostatically, through an inertia forc...

Outcome based or competency based education (OBE) is so firmly established in undergraduate medical education that it might not seem necessary to ask why it was included in recommendations for the future, like the Flexner centenary report. Uncritical acceptance may not, however, deliver its greatest benefits. Our aim was to explore the underpinnings of OBE: its historical origins, theoretical b...