Auteur Andrew S. Whittaker
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Graeme J. Ballantyne, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur ; Gary F. Dargush, Auteur |In blast engineering, many designs begin with simplified hand procedures with the loading parameters determined based upon a reflective surface of infinite size. Individual structural members such as columns have finite widths and should be cons[...]
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Ioannis V. Kalpakidis, Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur |Lead-rubber bearings are seismic isolators that have been used extensively to protect buildings, bridges, and mission-critical infrastructure from the damaging effects of earthquake shaking. In bridges, lead-rubber bearings are subjected to cont[...]
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Dhiman Basu, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur |Seismic analysis, design, and performance assessment of buildings, bridges, and safety-related nuclear structures is based on two or three translational components of earthquake ground motion. Although rotational components (rocking and torsiona[...]
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Yin-Nan Huang, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur ; Nicolas Luco, Auteur |The impact of alternate ground-motion scaling procedures on the distribution of displacement responses in simplified structural systems is investigated. Recommendations are provided for selecting and scaling ground motions for performance-based [...]
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Yin-Nan Huang, Auteur ; Andrew S. Whittaker, Auteur ; Michael C. Constantinou, Auteur |Numerical models of a sample nuclear power plant (NPP) reactor building, both conventionally constructed and equipped with seismic protective systems, are analysed for both safe shutdown and beyond-design-basis earthquake shaking at two coastal [...]
