Seminar Announcement
Analysis and Design of
Nuclear Power Plant Turbine, Boiler, and other Steel Building Structures
with special emphasis on
Rigorous Earthquake Response Spectrum Analysis, Linear and Nonlinear Time History
Analysis, Maximum Response Harmonic Analysis, and Nonlinear Static Analysis
Organizers: Professor Ahmed Y. Elghazouli, Ph.D.
Professor of Structural Engineering
Head of Structures Section
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Imperial College London
Aristidis Papachristidis, Ph.D.
STRUDL Europe
Location: Room: Skem-165 (Ground Floor-entrance from Unwin Road)
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Skempton Building (Building 27 on Campus Map)
Imperial College Road (next to Science Museum, off Exhibition Road)
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ
Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 0830-1200 hrs.
Speaker: Leroy Z. Emkin, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
Founder and Co-Director, Computer Aided Structural Engineering Center
Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0355 U.S.A.
Dr. Emkin is a well-known consultant and lecturer and lectures worldwide on topics related to the issues of quality, reliability, and cost effective use/misuse of computers, engineering ethics of using computers in structural engineering practice, advanced uses of computers in structural engineering practice, and advanced structural modeling, analysis, and design of complex structural systems.
Intended Audience: Structural engineers who are involved in linear and nonlinear static and dynamic analysis and design of heavy industry structural systems, and especially in the design of structures at commercial nuclear power plants. Purpose: This Seminar will present advanced, rigorous, and highly efficient procedures for solving largescale structural engineering nonlinear static, and linear and nonlinear dynamic, analysis problems including Eigen solution procedures and structural response associated with rigorous response spectrum earthquake analysis, linear and nonlinear time history transient analysis using both modal superposition and direct integration methods, maximum response harmonic analysis, and nonlinear static analysis. Special emphasis will be place on the analysis of large and complex structures commonly designed at industrial plant facilities, and especially at commercial nuclear power plants. The recently released GTSTRUDL 31 software system will be used as an example of software that can perform the necessary computations.