Beneficial and Detrimental Effects of Soil-Structure Interaction on Probabilistic Seismic Hazard and Risk of Nuclear Power Plant

Figure 8

Maximum top displacement of the NPP containment building for three soil conditions under 20 earthquake ground motions normalized to PGA of 0.1 g–2 g: (a) no SSI; (b) hard soil; (c) soft soil.

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