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SUMMARY:Building the UK’s Nuclear Future: Seismic Challenges - Harry Edw
 ards\, PhD Candidate\, CUED
DTSTART:20190301T150000Z
DTEND:20190301T160000Z
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CONTACT:Karen Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Nuclear power currently provides a clean source for 20% of the
  UK’s electricity\, this is due to be replaced by a new generation of pl
 ants constructed in the near future. However\, new Nuclear Power Plants ha
 ve often proven to be too expensive\, take too long to build and carry eno
 rmous economic risk during the construction phase. Offsite manufacturing a
 nd assembly\, where prefabricated parts are made in factories and then ass
 embled on site\, has recently been successfully applied to bridges\, hospi
 tals\, skyscrapers and houses. The next generation of Nuclear Power Plants
 \, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)\, must use a similar approach to achieve 
 economic savings\, faster construction and certainty of delivery.\nThe ove
 rall objective of my project is to develop\, understand and experimentally
  investigate the seismic performance of connection designs between large p
 recast concrete walls. Experimental results are then to be implemented in 
 a discrete element model of a nuclear building under earthquake loading. F
 inally\, new low-damage rocking structural systems are to be modified and 
 applied as a construction friendly approach for nuclear structures. \n
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR11
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