Flooding Fragility Experiments and Prediction
Curtis Lee Smith, USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE), Antonio Tahhan, Cody Muchmore, Larinda Nichols, Bishwo Bhandari, Chad L. Pope · 2016
This report describes the work that has been performed on flooding fragility, both the experimental tests being carried out and the probabilistic fragility predictive models being produced in order to use the text results. Flooding experiments involving full-scale doors have commenced in the Portal Evaluation Tank. The goal of these experiments is to develop a full-scale component flooding experiment protocol and to acquire data that can be used to create Bayesian regression models representing the fragility of these components. This work is in support of the Risk-Informed Safety Margin Characterization (RISMC) Pathway external hazards evaluation research and development.