The catastrophic consequences of recent NaTech events triggered by earthquakes highlighted the inadequacy of standard approaches to seismic risk assessment of chemical process plants. To date, the risk assessment of such facilities mainly relies on historical data and focuses on uncoupled process components. As a consequence, the dynamic interaction between process equipment is neglected. In response to this gap, researchers started a progressive integration of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) risk assessment framework. However, a few limitations still prevent a systematic implementation of this framework to chemical process plants. The most significant are: (i) the computational cost of system-level simulations accounting for coupling between process equipment; (ii) the experimental cost for component-level model validation; (iii) a reduced number of hazard-consistent site-specific ground motion records for time history analyses. In response to these challenges, this paper proposes a recently developed uncertainty quantification-based framework to perform seismic fragility assessments of chemical process plants. The framework employs three key elements: (i) a stochastic ground-motion model to supplement scarcity of real records; (ii) surrogate modeling to reduce the computational cost of system-level simulations; (iii) a component-level model validation based on cost-effective hybrid simulation tests. In order to demonstrate the potential of the framework, two fragility functions are computed for a pipe elbow of a coupled tank-piping system.

Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Coupled Tank-Piping System Based on Artificial Ground Motions and Surrogate Modeling / Abbiati, Giuseppe; Broccardo, Marco; di Filippo, Rocco; Stojadinović, Bozidar; Bursi, Oreste Salvatore. - In: JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES. - ISSN 0950-4230. - 2021, 72:(2021), pp. 104575.1-104575.9. [10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104575]

Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Coupled Tank-Piping System Based on Artificial Ground Motions and Surrogate Modeling

Broccardo, Marco;di Filippo, Rocco;Bursi, Oreste Salvatore
2021-01-01

Abstract

The catastrophic consequences of recent NaTech events triggered by earthquakes highlighted the inadequacy of standard approaches to seismic risk assessment of chemical process plants. To date, the risk assessment of such facilities mainly relies on historical data and focuses on uncoupled process components. As a consequence, the dynamic interaction between process equipment is neglected. In response to this gap, researchers started a progressive integration of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) risk assessment framework. However, a few limitations still prevent a systematic implementation of this framework to chemical process plants. The most significant are: (i) the computational cost of system-level simulations accounting for coupling between process equipment; (ii) the experimental cost for component-level model validation; (iii) a reduced number of hazard-consistent site-specific ground motion records for time history analyses. In response to these challenges, this paper proposes a recently developed uncertainty quantification-based framework to perform seismic fragility assessments of chemical process plants. The framework employs three key elements: (i) a stochastic ground-motion model to supplement scarcity of real records; (ii) surrogate modeling to reduce the computational cost of system-level simulations; (iii) a component-level model validation based on cost-effective hybrid simulation tests. In order to demonstrate the potential of the framework, two fragility functions are computed for a pipe elbow of a coupled tank-piping system.
2021
Abbiati, Giuseppe; Broccardo, Marco; di Filippo, Rocco; Stojadinović, Bozidar; Bursi, Oreste Salvatore
Seismic Fragility Analysis of a Coupled Tank-Piping System Based on Artificial Ground Motions and Surrogate Modeling / Abbiati, Giuseppe; Broccardo, Marco; di Filippo, Rocco; Stojadinović, Bozidar; Bursi, Oreste Salvatore. - In: JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES. - ISSN 0950-4230. - 2021, 72:(2021), pp. 104575.1-104575.9. [10.1016/j.jlp.2021.104575]
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